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Lewis Latimer House Digitization Grant | Queens, Ny

Grant Year: 2025

About the Lewis Latimer House: The Lewis Latimer House (LLH) was home to self-taught Black inventor, artist, and scientist, Lewis Latimer, for 26 years. Latimer, the son of self-emancipated enslaved Virginians, made significant contributions to electric lighting and developed a method to produce carbon filaments, making light bulbs affordable for common households. The house was preserved through a campaign . . .

New York Transit Museum | Brooklyn, New York

Grant Year: 2022

Thanks to a generous grant from the Robert David Lion Gardiner Foundation, Friends of the New York Transit Museum will catalog and digitize the extensive and historically significant archival material in the New York Transit Museum collection that inextricably links the role of transportation to the history and development of Long Island – including documents, photographs, maps, postcards, timetables, ephemera, . . .