General Preservation Survey for the Delaware Bay Museum

FAIN: PG-50124-07

Bayshore Discovery Project (Port Norris, NJ 08349-3126)
Deborah Slating (Project Director: May 2006 to July 2007)
Meghan Elizabeth Wren (Project Director: August 2007 to December 2008)

A general preservation assessment of manuscripts, postcards, 250 photographs, and 200 books related to the 20th-century history of watermen and the bivalve harvesting industry in the New Jersey areas of the Delaware Bay.

Bayshore Discovery Project requests a Preservation Assistance Grant of $5,000 to contract for a consultant with Conservation Center for Art and Historic Artifacts of Philadelphia to conduct a preservation needs assessment of its Delaware Bay Museum's historical document, book, and photograph collections.