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The Smithsonian Institution issued the following news release:
The Terra Foundation for American Art has awarded a $3 million grant to the Smithsonian's Archives of American Art to support another five years of the Archives' digitization project and to fund a new position that will create and oversee related online scholarly and educational outreach initiatives. With this second grant, the Terra Foundation has committed more than $6.6 million over a 10-year period.
Founded in 1954, the Archives is the world's largest and most widely used resource on the history of American art, with vast holdings of art-related photographs, sketches, letters and diaries. Over the next five years, a substantial number of its most-requested documents will be prepared, scanned and made available on the Archives' website, www.aaa.si.edu. Grant monies also will enable the Archives to further develop Web technologies to support various social media formats and digital humanities scholarship.
Begun in 2005, the Archives' digitization project has been transformational, dramatically changing how individuals can access and engage with its collections. Historically, the public only has been able to consult collection documents at the Archives' Washington, D.C., headquarters, or access selected holdings...