Winterthur Museum 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 from $1,000 to $2,000 per month.  One fellowship devoted to the
history of business and/or technology is jointly sponsored by the Hagely
Museum and Library.

Winterthur's rich and varied resources will support research on many
topics in American social and cultural history, including pre-industrial
crafts, Shaker history, decorative arts, painting and graphics,
consumerism, foodways, the history of childhood, travel and tourism,
public memory, and everyday life.

Resources include a library of approximately half a million imprints,
manuscripts, visual materials, and printed ephemera from the seventeenth
through the early twentieth century and a museum collection of 89,000
domestic artifacts and works of art made or used in America to 1840.

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

For an application packet, please write to:

Gary Kulik, Director
Research Fellowship Program
Winterthur Museum, Garden, and Library
Winterthur  DE  19735
(302) 888-4649
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