California Historical Society, San Francisco, California
First installment of two year grant totaling $50,000 to provide for salary support for the Curator of Photography for the Society which maintains an extraordinary photographic collection of approximately 500,000 images documenting the history of California in both the 19th and 20th century. The Curator will assist in the preparation of an exhibition to celebrate the centennial of the birth of the famous California photographer Ansel Adams in 1902. The exhibition opens in September of 2001 in San Francisco and travels to Los Angeles, Chicago, New York, London and Berlin. It is being underwritten by the Hewlett Packard Corporation and the Society is organizing an ancillary exhibition on the influence of San Francisco and California on Adams and his work.  The two year grant will enable the Society to allow the Curator of Photography to spend up to 50% of her time curating the collaborative exhibition.
               $25,000.00

Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies, Aberystwyth, Wales
Third installment of four-year grant totaling $80,000.00 to assist in The Centre's "Beirdd Yr Uchelwyr" (the Poetry of the Nobility) project which involves the preparation of a series of volumes on the poetry of the Cywyddwyr, the most accomplished bardic wordsmiths of the 15th century. This project is a continuation of previous projects supported by the Foundation for the research and publication of material on medieval Welsh bards and poets and their works.
               $20,000.00

Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, Williamsburg, Virginia
Final installment of grant totaling $200,000.00 for development of an Urban Culture Atlas for 18th century Williamsburg.  The Atlas is an outgrowth of the social history database project supported for four years by the Foundation and relates the information developed to specific parcels of property in Williamsburg. The grant will also support reorganizing the Williamsburg interpretative program for the historic area to develop a new "Becoming American" curriculum.
               $50,000.00

English Heritage, London, England
First installment of four year grant totaling $100,000 to establish an exhibition area for Whitby Abbey, an historic medieval abbey in Yorkshire, and to present the story of the town of Whitby from its earliest Saxon times through the Viking era, the medieval era and into the present day. Whitby was the birth place and home of Captain James Cook, the South Seas explorer, and the setting of the novel Dracula. In addition, the abbey was used as a target for gunfire by German warships during World War I. The exhibition will be established in a Jacobean banqueting hall on an estate adjacent to the abbey itself and will be prepared by Past Forward, a prominent English interpretive designer.
               $25,000.00

Galt Area Historical Society, Galt, California
Contribution to support the McFarland Living History Ranch Project sponsored by the Galt Historical Society.  The Miwok Indians will have an interpretive center as well as the Nature Conservancy which plans to provide special programs on conservation and natural science.  The living ranch will attract and offer an experience in pioneer history to over a half million children in schools in Northern California.
             $3,500.00

Hangtown's Gold Bug Park, Inc., Placerville, California
Support for development of a picnic area at the award winning Gold Bug Park, a California historical park of the gold rush era.
               $7,500.00

Historic Churches Preservation Trust, London, England
Grant to support conservation and preservation projects at rural churches in England. The funds will be used as part of a matching program to encourage local support to preserve historic churches, many of whose congregations have been reduced to very small numbers due to population shifts since the time of the church's construction in the medieval era.
               $10,000.00

Historic Hudson Valley, Tarrytown, New York
Grant to support a reinterpretation of Philipsburg Manor in the Historic Hudson Valley/Tarrytown area. Philipsburg Manor was one of the few areas in the North where slaves were utilized and this grant will assist in interpreter recruitment and training, providing for guest speakers and preparation of teachers, guides and education kits for school audiences. A revised Philipsburg Manor guide book is also contemplated.
             $7,500.00

Huntington Library, San Marino, California
Research on the papers and files relating to the development of natural gardens in England during the 18th century with emphasis on the famous gardens at Stowe, Buckinghamshire.
               $10,000.00

Institute of Nautical Archeology, College Station, Texas
Grant to support year 2000 field season for a deep water shipwreck Survey between Crete and Egypt in collaboration with Dr. Robert Ballard of Woods Hole and Dr. Lawrence Stager, the Director of the Harvard Semitic Museum.
               $15,000.00

International Institute for Mesopotamian Area Studies, Malibu, California
First installment of five year grant totaling $42,000 for field work and research for the archeological projects at Mozan/Urkesh in Syria.
               $6,000.00

Kathmandu Valley Preservation Trust, Baltimore, Maryland
Grant to support organization dedicated to the preservation and restoration of historic structures in Kathmandu Valley, Nepal, including temples, monasteries and residential buildings.  This grant is in conjunction with grants from the World Monuments Fund, the Getty Foundation, the Samuel H. Kress Foundation and UNESCO World Heritage Center as well as others.
               $7,500.00

National Museum of Civil War Medicine, Frederick, Maryland
Grant of general support for museum devoted exclusively to the study and interpretation of American Civil War medicine (1861-1865), a watershed period in medical history.  The museum collects, exhibits and preserves medical artifacts, manuscripts, books, documents and other material related to the period.
               $10,000.00

National Trust for Historic Preservation, Washington, D.C.
Final installment of grant totaling $200,000.00 to develop a program for the National Trust to diversify its collection of historic properties. The National Trust has heretofore been focused on east coast and southern properties with an occasional California property.  It now wishes to expand its program to include ranches, missions, pumping stations, and houses related with artists, such as Georgia O'Keefe, and other figures in American cultural history.  This grant will assist in feasibility studies and development costs necessary to acquire properties and develop interpretation programs for such properties.
               $40,000.00

Painshill Park Trust, Surrey, England
Final installment of grant totaling $45,000.00 to assist in the restoration of the decorative Grotto at Painshill Park.  A grotto was an essential component of mid-19th century English landscape gardens and the one at Painshill Park is the most elaborate example still open to the public. This grant will assist in restoration of the Grotto to its mid-18th century splendor.
               $30,000.00

San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park, San Francisco, California
Grant to assist in the acquisition of an unique illustrated memoir by a former skipper of the Parks' flagship Balclutha.  In addition to being a rich history related to the maritime development of San Francisco, the autobiographic account of Captain John J. Bertonccini (1872-1947) contains magnificent examples of American folk art, some 75 water color paintings depicting his experiences on sailing ships in early 20th century.
               $5,000.00

Vindolanda Trust, Northumberland , England
Further grant to museum at Hadrian's Wall in England which collects and develops and presents the Roman life along the Wall.  Previously, the Foundation supported the exhibition of Roman writing tablets and this grant would assist in necessary work to protect and preserve excavated Roman buildings at Vindolanda through the replacing of weakened original mortar to ensure that water penetration does not destroy the walls.
               $10,000.00

Waterways Museum, Goole, East Yorkshire, England
Grant to support development of computer interactive programs to tell the story of the Tom Pudding boats utilized on the canals of Yorkshire to bring coal and other products from the interior. This grant is an outgrowth of earlier grants for the preservation of Tom Pudding boat and development of Exhibitions relating to the canal infrastructure and the use of the Tom Pudding boats.
             $7,500.00

York Archaeological Trust, York, England
First installment of two year grant totaling $50,000 to support an atlas of the City of York in the British Atlas of Historic Towns program. Since the 1960s the International Commission for the History of Towns has been promoting a project for the publication of atlases of historic towns in Europe.  A forthcoming volume will be devoted to York and the Trust has been working with the British Historic Atlas Committee to prepare material for the York volume.  A map derived from the 1852 large scale Ordinance Survey of York will be the basis for the atlas with numerous period by period subsidiary maps.  The maps are to be supported by a gazetteer and by essays written by scholars expert in the study of various periods of York's history and will be published by the Oxford University Press.
               $25,000.00

       Total: $314,500.00