Grant-funded Projects

Support for 51°µÍø Libraries Digital Collections

51°µÍø Libraries’ Norwick Center for Digital Solutions makes available online tens of thousands of digitized manuscripts, imprints, photographs, works of art, and ephemera online from 51°µÍø Libraries special collections.

A major source of funding has been the TexTreasures grant program, underwritten by the (IMLS) and the (TSLAC). Thanks to the TexTreasures grant program, significant Texas-related collections from the DeGolyer Library are now accessible in 51°µÍø Libraries Digital Collections.

2009

$9,000: stipend grant from TSLAC to establish a cooperative Texas Artists: Paintings, Sculpture, and Works on Paper digital collection with the with Bywaters Special Collection, a unit of 51°µÍø’s Hamon Arts Library; the Dallas Museum of Art; and the Dallas Public Library. 

2010

$25,000: from the Lawrence T. Jones III Texas Photographs collection, a comprehensive overview of Texas photography, circa 1846-1945, held by the DeGolyer Library. (Summerlee Foundation Texas History Program, 2010)

$20,000: from the Lawrence T. Jones III Texas Photographs collection (TexTreasures FY2011).

2011

$20,000: from the first two decades of the 20th century held by the DeGolyer Library (TexTreasures FY2012).

$32,000: Texas art collectors fundraiser to digitize held by the Bywaters Special Collections.

2012

$20,000: from the Robert Yarnall Richie Photograph Collection, circa 1930s-1960s, held by the DeGolyer Library (TexTreasures FY2013).

$10,000: Opportunity Fund Grant from the Great Western Library Alliance to digitize in Dallas from the Edward C. Fritz Papers, held by the DeGolyer Library. 

2013

$20,000: (non-oil-related) from the Robert Yarnall Richie Photograph Collection, circa 1930s-1960s (TexTreasures FY2014).

2014

$20,000: from the Everett L. DeGolyer, Jr. Collection of United States Railroad Photographs (TexTreasures FY2015).

2015-2016

$50,000: , circa 1829-1950s, held by the DeGolyer Library (TexTreasures FY2016 and FY2017).

2017

$25,000: , circa 1866-1936, promoting emigration to Texas at the turn of the 19th century, held by the DeGolyer Library (TexTreasures FY2018).

2018

$25,000: from the Rowe-Barr Collection of Texas Currency, held by the DeGolyer Library (TexTreasures FY2019).

2019

$25,000: , including books, pamphlets, broadsides and serials printed in Texas, circa 1830-1923, held by the DeGolyer Library (TexTreasures FY2020).

2020-2022

$75,000: , circa 1900-1925, from the John Miller Morris Collection of Texas Real Photographic Postcards and Photographs, held by the DeGolyer Library (TexTreasures FY2021, FY2022, and FY2023).

2023

$40,000: for the “Historic Texas Imprints: Digitizing Unique and Rare Texas Publications, ca. 1836-1936” project, held by the DeGolyer Library (TexTreasures FY2024).