Appalshop Inc

Preserving and Improving Access to Appalshop's Humanities Collections [as the Organization Works to Resume Humanities Programming, We Are Seeking Capacity Support to Preserve and Improve Access to Our Archival Collections Illuminating the History and Culture of the Appalachian Region. Funds Will Go Towards the Digitization of Collections That Are in Urgent Need of Preservation Measures Including Photonegative Collections Spanning 1935 to 1991 and Moving Image Materials Dating to the 1970S. This Project Will Also Improve Access to Our Roadside Theater Collection That Includes Documentation of LATE-20TH Century Grassroots Theater Movements in the U.s.] [purpose: to Enhance Public Access to Archived Materials Relating to the History and Culture of the Appalachian Region.  Activities to Be Performed: digitization of Photographic Negatives From 1935-1955. DIGITIZATION of 16MM Archival Film. purchasing of a New Photo Scanner and Motion Film Scanner to Aid in the Digitization Efforts. improving Access to Roadside Theater Collection, an Archive Focusing on the History Of grassroots Theater.  Expected Outcomes: the Digitizing and Cataloguing of the Archive?s Collections.   Intended Beneficiaries: anyone With an Interest in the History of Appalachia.   Subrecipient Activities: this Project Does Not intend to Issue Any Subawards. ]