The Early American Industries Association

Magazine Antiques, Nov, 2001 by Remi Sprig

THE EARLY AMERICAN INDUSTRIES ASSOCIATION (EAIA) announces a research grants program to provide funding to individuals or institutions engaged in research projects that relate to the study of early American industries in homes, shops, farms, or on the sea The purpose of the grants is to assist graduate students or other scholars with research leading to publication, exhibition, or audiovisual material.

The number of grants and the amount for each grant is at the discretion of the committee, but no grant is to exceed $2,000. The EAIA encourages the study and better understanding of early American industries. Its members discover, identify, classify, preserve, and exhibit obsolete tools, implements, and mechanical devices from the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries.