ORAL HISTORY VIDEO INTERVIEWS HAVE STARTED
Please Help with what you can!
We have put together a wish list of equipment and supplies needed to continue to make oral history videos and grow our Museum Collections department. The grant does not pay for equipment that we need. We are able to receive donations during the grant project which ends August 31, 2023, so you can help any time over the next year.
WISH LIST
Oral History Video Editing Equipment
HP Z2 Tower Workstation
HP Keyboard & Mouse
HP Z#$c G3 Curved Monitor
Museum Collections Dept.
Book Scanner with Cradle Click here to view scanner.
Flat File Storage System
We have already purchased a second-hand set of flat files for the museum.
- SAFCO 5-Drawer Steel Flat File, Model #4998
- 4 units for $1800.00
- Link to model here
Accessories needed for the flat file include:
- Two (2) High Bases, SAFCO Model #4979
- List Price: $1191.00 each; $2382.00 total
- Link here
- Two (2) Lock Kits for 5-Drawer Files, SAFCO Model #4981
- List Price: $166.00 each, $332.00 total
- Link here
- Two (2) sets of drawer dividers, SAFCO Model #4980
- List Price: $179.00 each, $358.00 total
- Link here
Newspaper Storage
The Museum houses copies of newspapers that are not readily available to the public through other digitization projects. These artifacts need to be stored properly (as well as digitized) for public reference. Newspaper is especially unstable after 50 years, so many of these papers must be stored with extra caution.
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Twenty (20), Newspaper Boxes (22x30”), Gaylord BESNB23313
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Four (4) Sets of Newspaper Sleeves (22x30”), Gaylord NS2230
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Two (2) Sets of Newspaper Folders (22x30”), Gaylord OFF2230
Link here
For Flattening Artifacts
The Museum has invested in flat files and expanded storage for fragile and oversize documents. These documents no longer must be unrolled and rolled to be viewed; however, some must be treated to lay flat.
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Four (4) 1lb. bench weights, Gaylord SBW1
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Four (4) Acrylic Press Boards (12x14”), Hollinger NAPB1214
Freezer
Freezing is a common archival preservation method that can be used to treat pest and mold problems in addition to crisis management following a flood.
Insignia 7 Cu. Ft. Upright Freezer, NS-UZ7WH0
Price: $319.99
Link here
The grant project title is, Chincoteague Island: The Last Inhabited Virginia Barrier Island Digital History Project. We are seeking funding for a humanities collection public access project. We ask funding for a one year plan to PastPerfect Web Edition museum software with public access, to make an identified group of humanities based material available to the public through a link on our website to the searchable museum software. We are seeking funding for equipment and supplies to do the work neccessary to complete this project with a high quality outcome. We will have our videographer, Laura Smith (grant project director) create four professional videos from raw videos of the life history interviews, better known as oral histories of our most precious resource, our residents who have lived here all their lives, and edit six raw video interviews that have been in waiting since before Covid. These 10 finished videos will be made available to the public on the PastPerfect Web Edition museum software. Select museum collections will also be made available to the public. They are as follows:
1) The Chincoteague African American History Project and exhibit, which is existing work done with a 2012 grant from VH. This in depth research traces the Brinny family through generations and contains photographs of some family members. It also delves into the decline of the African American population on Chincoteague Island in the early 1900s.
2) The out of print book, "Chincoteague and Assateague as I Remember Them". This is an amazing account of early and forgotten history of the Islands with descriptions of and stories of early residents in the Village of Assateague on Assateague Island.
3) Two bankers boxes with files of company records from McCready Brothers Oyster Shucking House. These records are a time capsule, a glimpse into the Oyster shucking and packing business of brothers George (Gladys) and Orville McCready, that sat behind Miss Molly's Inn on the edge of Chincoteague Bay.
Exciting News: In applying for the VH grant, we have received a letter of support from M. K. Miles, Chairman of the Board of the Saxis Museum, who has spent a lifetime building the MilesFiles database. If we are awarded the grant, Mr. Miles has offered to enter families from the Life History oral history videos and grant project online collections in his free to the public database. This will position the museum as the premier resource of Chincoteague history, heritage and culture.The MilesFiles contains over 100,000 names from the Eastern Shore counties of Accomack and Northampton, Virginia; Somerset, Worcester and Wicomico, Maryland; and Sussex Co, Delaware. The MileFiles link lives on the genealogy site of the Eastern Shore Public Library`s website and is searched by thousands of people. Mr. Miles has agreed to post a link to our Life History video series within his MilesFiles. The inclusion of Chincoteague Island families from the Life History videos and the African American History Project in the MilesFiles would have a nationwide impact. Who wouldn`t want to look at Museum of Chincoteague Island`s collection online? This is an ongoing project and eventually, we could have all our collections digitized and give public access online.
One way to support us with the video making is to Subscribe to our YouTube channel, Museum of Chincoteague Island History. With your gmail account, just log into YouTube and hit the "Subscribe" button. We are striving to reach 1000 subscribers and unlock benefits from our channel.
