Museum of Innovation and Science

The Schenectady Museum in Schenectady, NY will use grant funds to continue its ongoing effort to preserve and make accessible the General Electric Photograph collection. This collection documents local workers from 1918 to 1930 and the electrification of American society. The museum will remove 53,200 photographs from leather-bound scrapbooks that have begun to deteriorate and place them in acid-free boxes with acid-free interleaving papers in order to ensure their long-term preservation for national and local researchers. This collection represents a vast resource for the study of American culture and technology.