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Winterthur Museum, Garden, and Library

invites applications for its 1999-2000 residential fellowship
program:

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

McNeil dissertation research fellowships: available for full year or
semester; $6500 per semester.

Winterthur research fellowships: available to academic, museum,
and independent scholars, and to support dissertation research for
one to six months; stipends of $1500 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 twentieth
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, garden
history, pre-industrial crafts, business history, the history of travel
and leisure, popular memory, and many other topics in American
art history, social and cultural history, and material culture.

Application deadline for all fellowships is January 15, 1999.

For an application packet, please write to:

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