The Sallie Bingham Center for Women’s History and Culture, part of the Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library at Duke University, has announced the availability of grants ts for travel to its collections:
The Sallie Bingham Center documents the public and private lives of women through a wide variety of published and unpublished sources. Collections of personal papers, family papers, and organizational records complement print sources such as books and periodicals.
Particular strengths of the Sallie Bingham Center are feminism in the U.S., women’s prescriptive literature from the 19th and 20th centuries, girls’ literature, zines, artist’s books by women, and the history and culture of women in the South. A number of prominent women writers haveplaced their personal and professional papers at Duke.
Mary Lily Research grants are for students, faculty members, andindependent scholars conducting research using the collections held by the Sallie Bingham Center. Grant money may be used for travel, photocopying, and living expenses while pursuing research at the Rare Book, Manuscript and Special Collections Library. Applicants must live outside of a 50-mile radius from Durham, NC. The maximum award per applicant is $1,000.
The deadline for application is January 15, 2008. For more information and the application form, please visit here.
Grant information for the John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising & Marketing History and the John Hope Franklin Collection of African and African-American Documentation may be found here.
-Bridget Crawford
