Fleetwood digitizes, archives and frames historical collections right here in Knoxville. We also give you the quote, specs and vendor letter your grant application needs.
Some preservation grants, like CLIR’s Recordings at Risk, require winners to hire an outside service provider for the work.
Naming an experienced vendor in your application shows reviewers you have a real plan.
If it’s fading, crumbling or stuck on a format nobody can play anymore, we can save it.
Prints, glass plates, slides and film negatives, scanned and restored.
Letters, ledgers, minutes, bulletins, newsletters and albums.
Maps, blueprints, posters and artwork on our wide-format scanner.
Microfilm reels and microfiche cards, scanned to digital files.
Reel-to-reel, cassette and cartridge tapes, with speed and noise correction.
VHS and other videotape formats.
8mm, Super 8 and 16mm film.
Grant reviewers want a clear plan and a real vendor. We give you both.
We look at your materials and estimate how many items and formats you have.
Per-item pricing and file specs you can drop straight into your grant budget.
A signed letter of commitment to include with your application.
Done in our Knoxville shop on your grant’s timeline.
Archival master files, easy-to-share copies, an item list for your catalog, and your originals back.
These are some of the programs that fund preservation and digitization for nonprofits and public institutions.
Audio, video and film reformatting. Winners are required to hire an outside service provider.
Larger digitization projects of rare and unique materials held by collecting organizations.
Collections care and exhibits for small museums. Small projects need no matching funds.
Help for smaller institutions to preserve and care for their collections.
Small grants through the Tennessee Historical Records Advisory Board for local archives, libraries, churches and historical societies.
Amounts and deadlines change every cycle, so always check the funder’s current guidelines. Fleetwood is a service provider, not a funder or grant writer. Your organization applies; we help with the parts that involve us.
Preservation is only half the story. Many grants also cover exhibits and public access, and we handle those under the same roof.
UV-protective glass and acid-free matting for documents, photos and artifacts on display.
Fine-art prints of fragile pieces, so originals can rest safely in storage.
Panels, labels and banners, designed and printed in-house.
Share digitized audio and video with your members through our private streaming platform.
No, your organization applies. We provide the pieces that involve us: an item count, an itemized quote, technical specs for the files we’ll create, and a vendor letter of commitment.
Yes. Most programs open only once or twice a year, so it helps to know your collection and costs before the window opens.
High-quality master files for long-term keeping, smaller copies for sharing online, an item list you can build your catalog from, and all of your original materials.
Send us the guidelines and we’ll tell you exactly what we can deliver before you submit.
Bring us a sample box, or invite us to walk through your shelves.