Off the Wall: Digital Preservation of Civil War Graffiti Houses

FAIN: PW-285066-22

George Mason University (Fairfax, VA 22030-4444)
Theodore Mills Kelly (Project Director: July 2021 to September 2024)

The Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media, in collaboration with Historic Blenheim and the Brandy Station Foundation, are requesting a Foundations grant to facilitate the planning of a digitization project focused on Civil War graffiti houses located in Virginia and elsewhere and to build collaborative workflows between our three organizations. Our project, Off the Wall: Digital Preservation of Civil War Graffiti Houses, will develop a design document for an eventual implementation grant aimed at digitizing and contextualizing the graffiti and associated ancillary documents held by Historic Blenheim and the Brandy Station Foundation related to the graffiti in their two historic house museums. We will also use the Foundations grant funds to reach out to other Civil War graffiti sites to bring them into the larger project as it develops.