National Mississippi River Museum and Aquarium (Mathias Ham House)

The Dubuque County Historical Society will inventory, relocate, register, and provide access to its archival and material culture collections. The IMLS award will provide for the planning, inventory, security, packing, and orderly move of the collection in 2010, as well as ongoing inventory, cataloging, and management of the collection. A digitized sampling of frequently handled or extremely fragile artifacts will be posted online as part of this project. This pilot digitization component will be evaluated by the Society to assess the feasibility of a more comprehensive digitization project in the future.