Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (Richmond, VA 23220-4007)
Stephen Bonadies (Project Director: July 2016 to November 2022)
PW-253706-17
Humanities Collections and Reference Resources
Preservation and Access
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Totals:
$173,833 (approved)
$173,833 (awarded)
Grant period:
7/1/2017 – 11/30/2019
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Digitization of the Louis Draper Papers and Archives
Cataloging and digitization of the archive of
Louis Draper, an African American photographer and educator, who captured the
urban life of African-Americans, mostly in New York City, over the latter half
of the 20th century. Draper’s
archive consists of 20 linear feet of prints, negatives, contact sheets, color
and black and white slides, as well as photographic equipment, notebooks, and
manuscripts.
The Virginia Museum of Fine
Arts (VMFA) seeks a grant from the NEH: Humanities Collections and Reference
Resources Implementation program in the amount of $173,833 for a 29-month
project to digitize, preserve and disseminate the entire archive of the
important 20th-century African American photographer and educator, Louis
Draper. Containing over 50,000 objects, the Draper archive is the most
significant acquisition in the history of the VMFA Archives. Through this
project, VMFA will improve its stewardship and care of this comprehensive
archival collection and its associated content.
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