Washington's Mentor: Gov. Dinwiddie's Correspondence, 1751-58 | Credits

Credits

Project Staff

E. Lee Shepard, Director of Manuscripts and Archives and Sallie and William B. Thalhimer III Senior Archivist
William B. Obrochta, Director of Education
Stacy G. Rusch, Chief Conservation Officer
Wendy Cowan, Paper Conservator, Richmond Conservators of Works on Paper
Caroline Legros, School Program Coordinator
Ann C. de Witt, Director of Web and Digital Resources

Acknowledgments

This is the second project undertaken by the VHS with funding from Save America's Treasures. During the inaugural year of that program, the Society received financial support to restore a major collection of Custis Family Papers, which also featured significant amounts of material relating to George Washington, as well as to his wife, Martha (Dandridge) Custis Washington.

The most recent project benefited from almost $80,000 in matching federal grant funds, which were being provided through the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), the agency that is overseeing manuscript and published materials conservation and restoration projects for the Save America's Treasures initiative. Along with this crucial financial support, the VHS also wishes to note the generosity of the National Society, Daughters of Colonial Wars in providing a substantial sum toward the Society's required cost-share match.

The current project was directed by E. Lee Shepard, Director of Manuscripts and Archives and Sallie and William B. Thalhimer III Senior Archivist at the VHS. Stacy G. Rusch, chief conservation officer, managed the day-to-day conservation work described elsewhere on these pages, much of which was undertaken by Wendy Cowan, a contract paper conservator of Richmond Conservators of Works on Paper.