Winterthur Museum * Garden * Library

invites applications for its 1997-98 residential fellowship programs:

NEH Fellowships: Available to scholars pursuing advanced research for four
to twelve months with stipends up to $30,000.

Winterthur Fellowships: Available to academic, museum, and independent
scholars, and to support dissertation research for one to six months with
stipends of $1,000 to $2,000 per month.

Winterthur's rich and varied library collections include half a million
imprints, manuscripts, visual materials, and printed ephemera that support
research in the seventeenth through the early nineteenth centuries.  The
museum collection includes 89,000 domestic artifacts and art objects made
or used in America to 1860.  Research topics might include: history of the
family, domestic life, childhood, consumerism, Shaker history, decorative
arts, pre-industrial crafts, business history, the history of travel and
tourism, popular memory, and many other topics in American material
culture.

Application deadline for the 1997-98 academic year is December 1, 1996.

For an application packet, please write:

Research Fellowship Program
Office of Advanced Studies
Winterthur Museum
Winterthur, DE  19735
(302) 888-4649

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