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To establish a Divisional Librarian in the Humanities to aid independent study and intellectual resourcefulness. He/she would work closelsy with faculty and students and would assist them in finding source materials, particularly in new and rare material.

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The retention of five staff members to develop online programming for audiences.

Eleutherian Mills-Hagley Foundation gratefully submits its request for support from the NEH CARES grant program. The COVID-19 pandemic forced the museum on March 13 and the entire institution on March 23 to temporarily cease operations. We canceled all of our public programming through at least the spring during Delaware’s state-mandated closure of non-life-supporting institutions. We shifted our programming online, making this available through a new offering (Hagley from Home) on our web site. Our request for support covers two related efforts: first, retaining critical programming staff so that Hagley will have the capacity to reopen with our traditional programs once the pandemic subsides; and second, continue evolving workflows we began in response to the pandemic to develop online components of nearly all our programming. We look at the second effort as a means to expand our reach to new audiences in normal times and retain our audiences in times of future emergency shutdowns.

To plan on-site and traveling exhibits depicting the lives of 19th-century workers.

To provide two qualified candidates with the opportunity to participate in developing specific interpretive programs with major museum departments. One intern will work in a broadening education program, the other will aid' in a new exhibit interpreting the Dupont residence to the public.

To support a catalogue of part of the 65,000 images in the Hagley Pictorial Collections consisting of prints, drawings, and photos documenting the development of the U.S. iron and steel industries.

The arrangement, description, and preservation of the Raymond Loewy (1893-1986) archives that span the period from 1906 to the 1970s.

To support the preservation on microfilm of the letter books of the Philadelphia & Reading Railroad Company, 1833 to 1900.

Installation of a climate control system, purchase and installation of storage furniture, and renovations to the Hagley Museum Hall of Records to improve conditions for its artifact and library collections on economic and business history.

The Hagley Museum and Library holds significant collections documenting the history of American enterprise Hagley stores these important museum and library collections, in part, in the Hall of Records where more than 80% of the building does not enjoy appropriate preservation climate controls. The focus for this grant is for the preservation of these important collections with a focus to stabilize the Hall of Records for appropriate storage. The necessary work includes extensive measures of water diversion, environmental systems and controls, interior modifications, a new roof, and museum storage equipment. This construction project in total will costs a minimum of five million dollars. During the grant period the project will realize expenses of $2,568,499 of which Hagley seeks $600,000 from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

12 months of stipend support (1-3 fellowships) per year for three years and a contribution to defray costs associated with the selection of fellows.

We propose creating postdoctoral fellowships that we would call the “Hagley Postdoctoral Fellowship on Business, Culture, and Society.” Our targeted applicant pool is the large and expanding array of scholars who use records generated by business to explore the impact of firms on our nation, and indeed the world. Similar postdoctoral fellowships for scholars trained in the humanities do not exist anywhere in the United States. We are in constant contact with these scholars through our current extensive grant programs and our role as the administrative center for the Business History Conference, the principal academic organization for scholarly research pertaining to firms and their influence on our society. (edited by NEH staff)

 12 months of stipend support (1 - 3 fellowships) per year for three years and a contribution to defray costs associated with the selection of fellows.

The Center for the History of Business, Technology, and Society at the Hagley Museum and Library is applying for support from the National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship Program for Independent Research Institutes. We request 12 months of support each year for 3 years to continue our program of awarding the “NEH-Hagley Fellowship on Business, Culture, and Society,” the same amount previously awarded to us under the FPIRI program. Based on our experience from 2 previous round of FPIRI funding (and 4 applicant review cycles), we would award fellowships ranging from 4 to 12 months in length, with the number of fellowships determined by the durations assigned. Our targeted applicant pool is the large and expanding array of scholars who use records generated by business to explore the impact of firms on our nation, and indeed the world. We see these fellowships as attractive both to recent PhD recipients revising dissertations and mid-career faculty seeking support for sabbaticals.

To support processing of the Pennsylvania Power and Light archival collection of records of some 850 predecessor and merged companies that served 700 communities from 1850-1950. The records will be of use for studying energy issues and economic, technological, and social history.