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

or email pelli@udel.edu