Redmond Historical Society receives 4Culture Collections Care grant

The Redmond Historical Society has received a new heritage collections care grant from 4Culture of King County—totaling $5,700—to digitize its extensive collection of the Sammamish Valley News (SVN), a local newspaper published weekly for nearly 100 years in Western Washington.

This is the second consecutive year that the Society has received funding for this project, to be completed in the first half of 2015. SmallTownPapers, a digital archiving company in Shelton, WA, continues to do the work of scanning the papers into high quality, searchable scans into an archive database. Last year, the Society shipped 2,825 pages of SVN newspapers to the Shelton-based company.

Currently the SVN archive, available through links on the Society’s website, covers individual papers from 1946 to 1967. The public can search by topic, or by person. The direct link to the archives is http://rhs.stparchive.com/.

4Culture’s Heritage Collections Care grants provide funding that focuses on the care and maintenance of historic collections in King County.

About Redmond Historical Society

Redmond Historical Society is a volunteer-supported organization, with offices and historical displays housed in the Old Redmond Schoolhouse Community Center. The Society receives financial support from 4Culture, the City of Redmond, the Bellevue Collection, and Nintendo of America, as well as from other donors and members. Redmond Historical Society is known widely for its Saturday Speaker Series. Check the Society’s website for the schedule.

The Redmond Historical society is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization founded in Redmond, Washington in 1999. The Society’s mission is to serve the community through stewardship, collecting, preserving, and sharing Redmond’s unique heritage. The Society invites membership inquiries and newsletter subscriptions.