Philip M. Hamer and Elizabeth Hamer Kegan Award
Purpose and Criteria for Selection:
Established in 1973 and modified in 1987 and 1991, this award recognizes
an archivist, editor, group of individuals, or institution that has
increased public awareness of a specific body of documents through
compilation, transcription, exhibition, or public presentation of archives
or manuscript materials for educational, instructional, or other public
purpose. Archives may include photographs, films, and visual archives.
Publication may be in hard copy, microfilm, laser disk, or other circulating
medium.
Eligibility:
Individual archivists and editors, groups of individuals, organizations.
Sponsor and Funding:
The Society of American Archivists, with the prize underwritten by
a fund first established by Elizabeth Hamer Kegan. Appointed Assistant
Librarian of Congress in 1963, she directed its information, exhibits,
publications, and international visitors' programs and shepherded the
Library's American Revolution Bicentennial Program. She served as President
of SAA and was a Fellow. Philip M. Hamer was an historian; served successively
as head of the Library, Accessions, Reference, and Records Control
divisions of the National Archives; was the first executive director
of the National Historical Publications Commission; and was the author
of A Guide to the Archives and Manuscripts in the United States.
Prize:
A certificate and a cash prize consisting of the income of the prize
fund for that year.
First Awarded:
1973
Selection Committee:
The subcommittee is composed of three members of the Society of American
Archivists and one of the co-chairs of the Awards Committee (ex
officio). One member of the subcommittee shall be appointed each
year by the SAA President-elect to serve a three-year term. The senior
member of the subcommittee in years of service shall serve as chair.
For Nomination Forms:
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Application Deadline:
All nominations shall be submitted to the Awards Committee by February
28 (or other date as announced) of each year.
Philip M. Hamer and Elizabeth Hamer Kegan Award Recipients:
1973: Patricia A. Clark
1974: David W. Hirst
1975: Harold Dean Moser
1976: Charles F. Hobson
1977: Dorothy Twohig
1978: Philander D. Chase
1979: Raymond W. Smock
1980: Linda J. Pike
1981: Sharon Macpherson
1982: Mary Dix
1983: Robert E. McCarthy
1984: David Wilson
1985: Claude-Ann Lopez
1986: Not awarded
1987: Robert E. Bailey, Elaine S. Evans
1988: Nancy Bartlett, Kathleen Koehler
1989: Jane Doerr
1990: Judy Hohmann
1991: James D. Folts, Larry Hackman, Judy Hohmann
1992: Elaine Forman Crane, Northeastern University Press
1993: Carl Albert Center at University of Oklahoma
1994: American Heritage Center at University of Wyoming
1995: New York Public Library
1996: Julie Daniels, Judy Hohmann, Jean West
1997: Minnesota Historical Society
1998: Linda A. Ries
1999: Delaware Public Archives
2000: Jeffrey
D. Marshall, A War of the People: Vermont Civil War Letters
2001: Shelly
Henley Kelly
2002: Vermont
State Archives
2003: New
York State Archives Partnership Trust
2004: Pennsylvania
Historical and Museum Commission
2005: Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation
2006: The State Library and Archives of Florida's Florida Folklife Digitization and Education Project
2007: National Library of Medicine's Profiles in Science
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