"With all the talk of budget slashing, it's nice every once in a while to hear of a project getting an infusion of cash. And we're a little biased, but we really like California's recent recipient of the Save America's Treasures program.

The San Francisco Examiner Photograph Archive at UC Berkeley's Bancroft Library will get $158,000 to preserve old and threatened photo negatives. The program is a partnership of the National Trust for Historic Preservation and the National Parks Service.

The archive was donated in 2006 by the family that bought the Examiner from the Hearst Corp. The 3.6 million negatives and 1 million prints catalog 70 years of life in San Francisco, Northern California and the American West.

Forty projects were given grants. And while we're partial to, ahem, preserving newspapers (both past and future!), there were many other interesting grant recipients, including a Montana mining ghost town, a historic prison in Pennsylvania, and Woodrow Wilson's childhood home in South Carolina." - Audrey Cooper, The Chronicle's San Francisco editor

Click here for Full Article