2024-2025 SC SHRAB Regrant Program Projects
The 2024-2025 SC SHRAB Regrant Program awarded nine projects with funding support from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC).
Details on these successful projects follows:
1. Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture
More information coming soon.
2. Belton Area Museum Association
Rehoused, digitized and cataloged into PastPerfect, records of the Railroad Collection consisting of deeds, maps, contracts, pictures, and books dating from 1857 to 2001 and encompassing just over two cubic feet of records and 77 digital items. The online catalog is located at https://beltonmuseum.pastperfectonline.com/. Total project cost $3,706.16.
3. City of Charleston, Records Management Division
Catalogued into PastPerfect, 1,753 archival municipal maps, plats, and plans of the Municipal Map Collection, covering 1788-2010 and includes street layouts, sewer lines, storm drains, sidewalks, property lines, railway tracks, wharves, and city parks as well as limited architectural drawings. Catalog and two featured collections: Municipal Maps and Municipal Architectural Drawings accessible at https://charleston-sc.catalogaccess.com/. Total project cost: $14,629.90.
4. Greenville County Historical Society
Rehoused and catalogued the Mildred Edwards Whitmire Collection/Vardry McBee Family Documents Collection, including 850 documents sorted into 33 series. The collection spans the years 1786 to 1934, and includes land grants, deeds, recorded and unrecorded plats, business records and more. In its rehoused state, it occupies 5.3 cubic feet in 10 legal size clamshell boxes and 9 oversize boxes. A highlight of the collection is featured on their website at https://greenvillehistory.org/resources. Total project cost: $4,930.09.
5. McKissick Museum, University of South Carolina
Rehoused all paper collections of the Folklife Resource Center, including the Southeastern Music, Rural Humanities Projects, and Rural Arts Initiative Collections (13,500 sheets). Digitized and created metadata for 7,840 sheets of the Southeastern music collection including the Drink Smalls Collection, Dewitt “Snuffy” Jenkins Collection, Bill Wells Collection, the Bluegrass Collection, and the Mac Arnold Collection. Total project cost: $14,051.05.
6. City of Mullins/South Carolina Tobacco Museum
Created metadata for eight volumes of previously digitized City of Mullins Meeting Minutes from 1913-1968 for a total of 0.6688 cubic feet and 2329 digitized pages, which are available for access via the Lowcountry Digital Library at https://lcdl.library.cofc.edu/institution/city-of-mullins-south-carolina/. Total project cost $10,180.57.
7. South Carolina Historical Society
Completed six statewide presentations on how to get started with preserving historic organizational archives, with a focus on religious organizations. Presenters offered tips on supplies and storage needs, as well as information on how church and other organizational archives can be organized and made accessible. Total project cost $13,269.34.
8. Upcountry History Museum
Digitized 73 interviews from their Oral History Collection, covering the World War II veteran series, Civil Rights in Greenville, Greenville history, and Textile History, including 81 individuals and 5 recordings of multi-person panels as well as transcription of six interviews. Digitized interviews can be found on the museum’s website at https://soundcloud.com/upcountryoralhistory. Total project cost $6,221.87.
9. The Village Museum at McClellanville
More information coming soon.
Contact Erin Lowry, SHRAB Coordinator, at scshrab@scdah.sc.gov or 803-896-6128 with questions.