Mississippi Grants
NHPRC Grants by State and Territory
These Mississippi grants span 1979 - 2009.
Records Projects
Mississippi Department of Archives & History, Jackson, MS
$63,551 to support basic activities, emergency preparedness, and technical assistance to county
records managers in the state's 14 oldest counties to improve the preservation of, and access to, some of the state's most valuable records from pre-1920. (RC10060-09)
Mississippi Department of Archives & History, Jackson, MS
$16,000 to support basic activities of the state historical records advisory board. (RC10026-08)
Mississippi Department of Archives & History, Jackson, MS
$10,000 to support the state historical records advisory board. (RS10045-08)
Mississippi State Historical Records Advisory Board, Jackson, MS
$25,000 to enable the state archivist to undertake disaster assessment and response in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. (2005-091)
Mississippi State Historical Records Advisory Board, Jackson, MS
$6,371 in partial
support of the board's administrative expenses for one year. (2001-010)
Mississippi Department of Archives & History, Jackson, MS
$171,887 to establish an electronic
records program in conjunction with the planned design of and move to a new state archives
building. (97-003)
Lauderdale County Department of Archives and History, Meridian, MS
$15,168 to
microfilm ca. 107 linear feet of selected records of Lauderdale County, the City of Meridian, the
Lauderdale County School System, and the Meridian Separate School System. (92-108)
Mississippi Department of Archives and History, Jackson, MS
$94,139 to conduct a
MARC-based (MAchine-Readable Cataloging) archival description program. The records will
also be loaded into the Mississippi Union Catalog and into a national database. (91-118)
Jackson State University, Jackson, MS
$77,995 for a statewide survey of the organizational
and business records and personal papers of 20th-century African-American Mississippians.
(90-073)
Lauderdale County Department of Archives and History, Meridian, MS
$76,240 to
establish an archives and records management program for the records of Lauderdale County and
the City of Meridian. (89-047)
Jackson State University, Jackson, MS
$5,000 for a consultant to help in planning the
survey and collection of organizational and business records and personal papers of
African-American Mississippians. (89-044)
Lauderdale County Department of Archives and History, Meridian, MS
$5,104 to
undertake planning for an archives and records management program for Lauderdale County and
the City of Meridian. (88-092)
University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg, MS
$18,000 for a fellowship in archival
administration. (86-121)
Mississippi Department of Archives and History, Jackson, MS
$29,251 to arrange and
describe its Channel 3 newsfilm collection, including development of a computer-based
descriptive system. (84-023)
Mississippi Valley State University, Itta Bena, MS
$23,616 to arrange and describe the
university's archival records. (83-010)
City of Hattiesburg, Hattiesburg, MS
$7,452 to preserve, arrange, describe, and make
available the city's non-current records. (82-032)
Mississippi State Historical Records Advisory Board, Jackson, MS
$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. (81-120)
Mississippi Regional Archives #1, Columbus, MS
$35,000 to inventory and draft retention
and disposition schedules for county records. (81-029)
University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg, MS
$56,787 to appraise, arrange, and
describe the records of the Association of American Railroads and the Gulf, Mobile, and Ohio
Railroad. (80-056)
University of Mississippi, University, MS
$11,210 to arrange and describe the university's
Lumber Archives relating to the lumber industry in Mississippi between 1829 and 1944.
(80-011)
Mississippi Department of Archives and History, Jackson, MS
$30,932 to survey and report
on historical records in executive agencies, boards, and commissions, and to recommend
legislation and other actions to improve archival and records programs for the state government.
(79-084)
Subtotal (Records Projects) $ 768,703
Publications Projects
Ulysses S. Grant Association, Starkville, MS
$59,040 for the Papers of Ulysses S. Grant. (2009)
Project In Progress
Subtotal (Publications Projects) $ 59,040
TOTAL $ 827,743
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