Colonial Williamsburg Foundation

The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation will relocate its corporate archives and photograph collections to a newly renovated central location in the John D. Rockefeller Jr. Library to increase their accessibility and provide capacity for future growth.. The foundation will purchase and install high-density compact shelving and rolling ladders to allow staff to safely access the collection. Existing electronic finding aids will be enhanced by merging multiple and disparate databases into a unified SQL server database, allowing for effective tracking and searching at the box, item or folder level. These collections contain materials of national and international significance about living history interpretation, the early preservation movement in the U.S., and professionalizing of early American history, architectural history, and historical archaeology.