National Historical Publications & Records Commission

Maryland

Records Projects

B&O Railroad Museum, Inc., Baltimore, MD
$102,542 to support the second phase of a project to process an additional 25,000 records of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Relief Department. The first phase processed 15,000 records from the B&O Railroad’s efforts to respond to their employees before programs such as workers’ compensation, unemployment insurance, private health insurance, and other such social insurance and security programs existed. (RH-104778)

Sister States of Maryland, Annapolis, MD
$1,000,000 to support a project highlighting Maryland’s rich history fighting injustice around the world. orts of entry in Maryland. The project is based on UNESCO Slave Route Project Research that identified Middle Passage ports of entry, including five ports of entry in Maryland. From those days of the slave trade to today, Marylanders like Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, Thurgood Marshall, Decatur Dorsey, Pauli Murray and countless others, as well as organizations like Maryland’s HBCUs, churches, and civil groups have played key roles in civil rights both in Maryland and abroad. Funds will be used for archival research and public engagement and education to highlight the role of Black Marylanders in the global struggle against discrimination and injustice. (ED104667-23)

Afro Charities, Annapolis, MD
$257,000 to support archival processing in advance of digitizing the AFRO-American Newspapers' full archival collection, including its photo archives, and moving the collection to a public-serving facility in West Baltimore. (ED104673-23)

University of Maryland, Eastern Shore, Princess Anne, MD
$500,000 to support a project to process and describe 100 linear feet of materials held in the Frederick Douglass Library Special Collections Department and make available online 5 finding aids, and approximately 80,000 digital surrogates. (ED-103533-22)

Maryland African American Museum, Baltimore, MD
$650,000 to support a permanent exhibit on racial terror lynching in Maryland, which will educate about these unjust acts of extrajudicial vigilante justice, and provide a memorial to honor the memories of those lost to this horrific violence. (ED-103535-22)

B&O Railroad Museum, Baltimore, MD
$92,039 to process and describe 15,000 employee case files from the records of the B&O Railroad Relief Department that cover the period 1880 to 1963. (RH-103466-22)

Maryland State Archives, Annapolis, MD
$50,056 to support a project to digitize 18,000+ documents, dating from the mid-17th century to the mid-19th century, that make up the alienated government records found in the Maryland State Papers collected by John Thomas Scharf (1843 -1898). As a member of the Maryland Historical Society, Scharf sought out and collected historical records from around the state, often rescuing them from certain loss and destruction. (RH-103188-21)

Maryland State Archives, Annapolis, MD
$50,619 to support access to Maryland’s early legal records by digitizing 40 volumes of Chancery Court dockets for the period 1784 to 1851, 56 volumes of Chancery Court case transcriptions for the period 1801 to 1852, and 155 court files for the period 1786-1850 that relate to the guardianship of those deemed to have a mental illness. (RH102765-19)

Maryland State Archives, Annapolis, MD
$20,205 to support the work of the Maryland State Historical Records Advisory Board, including four records management and archives workshops for the state government’s Records Officers, three archives awareness events to engage the public and educate them about the importance of archives, four Digitization Days for family records, a public moving image and video conversion workshop, and two summits that will help the board discover the needs of researchers and learn about barriers that limit access to records. (RC102718-19)

Maryland State Archives, Annapolis, MD
$3,780 support one year of the Maryland Historical Records Advisory Board’s programs, including an all-day Archives Month event to help the public identify and use archival materials. (RC100043-17)

Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
$36,790 to support digitization of correspondence from the Daniel C. Gilman Papers collection. Gilman (1831-1908) was president of Johns Hopkins University (1875-1901), where he created the first full graduate program in America, and later served as the president of the new Carnegie Institution of Washington. (RD10205-16)

Maryland State Archives, Annapolis, MD
$4,317 to support basic funding for the state historical records advisory board, including a best practices and emergency preparedness workshop and a public Archives Month event that will offer workshops and lectures, presentations on family history research, and information on how to preserve documents and photographs.

Maryland State Archives, Annapolis, MD
$142,000 to support a project to process and digitize 111 series of county records consisting of manumissions and certificates of freedom, issued in 17 Maryland counties and Baltimore City, covering the period 1774-1869. (RH50128-14)

Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD
$69,556 to support a 15-month project to undertake detailed processing of five key collections in its holdings: the photograph collection, the audio/visual collection, the curatorial exhibits collection; juried and invitational exhibits records, and education department records. (RH50108-14)

University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD
$23,872 to support a 16-month project to execute a workflow for creating EAD-compliant collection records and finding aids for regional and university records. (RH50117-14)

Maryland State Archives, Annapolis, MD
$4,317 to support basic funding to provide services of an archivist to assist government administrators of the City of Baltimore to improve departmental record programs and to assist local governments with the preparation of emergency disaster plans. (RC10211-14)

Maryland State Archives, Annapolis, MD
$6,254 to support basic funding for travel costs for three board meetings, a series of workshops focusing on archival best practices and emergency preparedness, and participation in a national archival organization. (RC10147-13)

Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD
$112,039 to support a 30-month project to develop and implement a records management program and process 994 cubic feet of institutional records and manuscript collections that document the formation and development of this cultural institution. Founded in 1914, the Museum now houses more than 90,000 works of art, and it is known around the world for the Cone Collection, which includes the largest and most significant collection of works by Henri Matisse. (RB50157-11)

Maryland State Archives, Annapolis, MD
$121,840 to prepare, in partnership with the City of Baltimore, improved descriptive information for the records of Baltimore from 1729 to the present, which total over 30,000 cubic feet, in an online finding aid. (RP50031-10)

Maryland State Archives, Annapolis, MD
$7,658 to support basic activities, a needs assessment survey of 400 repositories in the state, and a series of emergency preparedness workshops. (RC10076-10)

National Federation of the Blind, Baltimore, MD
$125,000 to support a two-year project to process the records of its founder, Jacobus tenBroek, and the organization's records beginning in 1940. The National Federation of the Blind is the oldest and largest organization of blind people in the United States, and tenBroek was a leader in the blind civil rights movement. (RB50045-09)

American Institute of Physics, College Park, MD
$39,063 to support the digitization of the papers of physicist Samuel A. Goudsmit, who headed the team investigating Germany's progress in developing the atomic bomb from 1944-1946. (RD10029)

The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD
$50,000 to support an assessment of the viability for an Electronic Records Management Consortium for the four major Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions. (RE10014-08)

Oblate Sisters of Providence, Inc., Baltimore, MD
$25,830 for the Historic Photograph Project, to process and make available the historical photograph and scrapbook collection of the applicant. The Oblate Sisters of Providence is the oldest order of women religious of African descent in the world. A recent inventory identified approximately 16,000 photographs dating from the 1850s to 2003. (2004-070)

American Institute of Physics, College Park, MD
$78,200 for its project to preserve the records of physicists in industry. (2003-061)

Maryland Historical Society, Baltimore, MD
$65,402 for a 17-month project to catalog two significant photograph collections relating to life in Baltimore from the 1940s to the 1970s. (97-064)

American Institute of Physics, College Park, MD
$125,000 for the third phase of a project to analyze records created by multi-institutional teams doing research in physics, identify and test alternative approaches to preserving team research records of historical significance and enhancing their potential for research use, and develop policy recommendations and programs to deal with the present and future documentation of these teams and their work. (94-112)

Association for Information and Image Management, Silver Spring, MD
$19,460 to develop a model uniform law pertaining to the legal acceptance of records produced by information technology systems in Federal and state agencies and the legal admissibility of such records as evidence in Federal and state courts. (93-038)

Epilepsy Foundation of America, Landover, MD
$3,420 for a consultant to provide guidance on developing an archival program pertaining to the history of efforts to deal with epilepsy in the United States. (92-139)

Maryland State Archives, Annapolis, MD
$55,202 to improve access to and understanding of state agency records held by the archives by creating MARC AMC (Machine Readable Cataloging Archival and Manuscripts Control) records and loading them into three databases: an in-house system, MICROCAT (Maryland's statewide union catalog), and OCLC (Online Computer Library Center). (91-101)

Baltimore Museum of Industry, Baltimore, MD
$38,608 to provide access to its manuscript collections relating to Maryland companies and corporations. (90-111)

Association for Information and Image Management, Silver Spring, MD
$10,945 to produce a technical report which will provide guidelines for government archives in the use, backup, and application of digital optical imaging systems used for the storage of public records. (90-003)

Carmelite Sisters of Baltimore, Baltimore, MD
$37,185 to preserve, arrange, describe, and make accessible the historical records (1642 to date) of the oldest community of religious women in the original 13 colonies. (88-106)

Association for Documentary Editing, Baltimore, MD
$25,880 for preliminary organization and development of the National Trust for Our Documentary Heritage. (87-063)

Museum and Archives of the History of Columbia, Columbia, MD
$2,248 for a consultant to chart the future of the archives of Columbia, a planned city founded in 1967. (87-007)

American Society for Microbiology, Catonsville, MD
$31,500 to continue development of a records program for the society. The project will provide access to historical records and implement a records management system for the society's current records. (86-132)

Worcester County Library, Snow Hill, MD
$21,287 to arrange and describe the William D. Pitts surveyors collection. The collection contains extensive land records for this Eastern Shore county from 1748 through 1980. (86-116)

Historic St. Mary's City, St. Mary's City, MD
$10,959 to provide security and reference copies of 45,000 textual records, drawings, and photographs created during archaeological excavations of St. Mary's City. St. Mary's City was Maryland's first European settlement and its seat of government from 1634 to 1694. (86-039)

The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD
$154,143 for a three-year project, in cooperation with the university's Alan Mason Chesney Medical Archives, to initiate a records management program for the four major Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions and to produce a guide to the management of medical records. (85-139, 86-124, 88-001)

Peabody Institute of The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
$27,619 to arrange and describe institute records dating from 1857 to 1977. The Peabody Institute is one of the nation's oldest arts institutions and offers a variety of cultural programs, including a music conservatory and an art gallery. (85-125)

University of Baltimore, Baltimore, MD
$55,000 to inventory, arrange, and preserve the A.S. Abell collection, consisting of 3,500 hours of local television newsfilm. The collection documents Baltimore and Maryland history from 1949 to 1983. (84-131)

Maryland State Historical Records Advisory Board, Annapolis, MD
$25,000 to analyze the current condition of historical records in the state, identify problems, frame potential solutions, and outline actions that can be taken now and in the future. (84-053)

Baltimore City Archives, Baltimore, MD
$22,000 to survey, appraise, and continue to arrange and describe the historical records of the city. (81-058)

George Meany Center for Labor Studies, Silver Spring, MD
$6,370 for a conference to begin to develop a systematic approach to the preservation and use of labor records in the United States. (80-126)

Maryland Historical Society, Baltimore, MD
$25,650 to preserve, reproduce, and catalog selected glass negative photograph holdings. (80-089)

University of Baltimore, Baltimore, MD
$31,134 for the Metropolitan Baltimore Historical Records Council's project to survey organizational records in Baltimore and develop a cooperative program to preserve the records and make them available. (80-018)

Baltimore Bureau of Records Management, Baltimore, MD
$27,611 to arrange and describe the records of the mayor and city council of Baltimore, 1797-1971, and to identify conservation needs for these records. (79-041)

Peabody Institute of The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
$1,800 for consultation to develop programs to arrange and describe the records of the mayor and city council of Baltimore, 1797-1971, and to identify conservation and cultural activities. (79-040)

University of Baltimore, Baltimore, MD
$26,091 for the Baltimore Congress for Local Records and History to survey and selectively accession historical records in private hands in the Baltimore area and to make recommendations for a comprehensive accessioning policy for the area. (79-020)

Baltimore Region Institutional Studies Center, Baltimore, MD
$13,149 to process records of the Maryland Council of Churches and predecessor organizations, 1904-71, deposited at the center. (79-019)

The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD
$59,451 for a two-year project to arrange, describe, and prepare a guide to the records, dated from 1884, of the Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions in the Alan Mason Chesney Medical Archives. (78-100, 79-119)

Maryland Hall of Records, Annapolis, MD
$22,059 to arrange and prepare computer-generated guides to the records of St. Mary's County and the equity records of Baltimore City, to serve as prototypes for future guides to government records in Maryland. (77-093)

Baltimore Region Institutional Studies Center, Baltimore, MD
$6,698 to preserve and describe records of the Baltimore City Planning Department. (77-026)

Subtotal (Records Projects) $4,523,848

Publications Projects

Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
$125,000 to support editorial work on its collaborative digital edition project, Kinship and Longing: Keywords for Black Louisiana, a digital edition that highlights Black life and culture of the Gulf Coast. (PD-103658-24)

University of Maryland, College Park, MD
$119,996 to support a planning grant to create a documentary edition of the Revue des Colonies, the first French periodical directed by people of color. Published monthly between 1834 and 1842 under the direction of Martinican abolitionist Cyrille Bissette, the Revue published Black authors from France, the Caribbean, and the US, and liberally circulated reports (in French translation) from American antislavery periodicals. (PL-104691-24)

Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
$120,000 to support planning for Kinship and Longing: Keywords for Black Louisiana. The proposed collaboration involves scholars and graduate students based at Johns Hopkins, Tulane, Notre Dame, and the University of Texas-El Paso to plan for and develop a digital edition based on some 200,000 French and Spanish colonial records (1714-1803) documenting enslaved and free people of African descent in Louisiana. (PL103381-22)