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SIA Industrial Heritage Preservation Grants Awarded - 2006
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SIA Industrial Heritage Preservation Grants 2006 Alicia Batko Grant Amount: $1500.00 Project: Phase II of grantee’s work to research, document and nominate an expansion to the existing Millville Historic and Archeological District in Sussex County, New Jersey. Nomination will sent be to the New Jersey and National Registers of Historic Places. ). SIA funded Phase I research in 2005. Phase II is to complete the documentation and the National Register nomination. Jason D. Moser Grant Amount: $3,000.00 Project: A dendrochronology study of timbers from two of four historic ship building sites recently identified through the Lower Eastern Shore Shipyard Survey (Chesapeake Bay, MD) conducted by Mr. Moser, a doctoral candidate at Florida State University. Analysis to be conducted by Oxford Dendrochronological Laboratory. Donald Hardesty, Ph. D.
Grant Amount: $1,500.00
Project: Archeological investigation of the Virginia and Truckee railway section camp, conducted by University of Nevada doctoral candidate Efstathios Pappas, with particular focus on ethnicity, gender and class through archeological studies of worker and foremen housing; SIA grant to fund purchase of field supplies, specifically a digital camera and total station surveying equipment. Sam Ellenport
Grant Amount: $3,000.00
Project: Harcourt Bindery (MA): Production of a documentary video of historic leather book binding practices now done by hand that are to be replaced by new machine techniques in 2007. Ann Lawless Grant Amount: $3,000.00 Project: American Precision Museum (VT): Research and HABS/HAER level recording of 1840 wheel pit. Information will be used to facilitate restoration/repair of the pit to prevent moisture from permeating the museum structure and collections. Information on the SIA’s Industrial Heritage Preservation Grants can be found at http://www.siahq.org/grants/about.html. The deadline for applications for 2007 is March 31, 2007, with the grant awards determined at the Annual Meeting in June. Recipients of the SIA Industrial Heritage Preservation Grants are required to provide SIA with auditable accounts of the money expended, two copies of products generated from the funded project, and a written report for the SIAN or journal. The SIA grants support the research, documentation, and presentation of industrial sites and practices. Grant guidelines are available online here at the SIA web site. |