The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded a $552,888.88 Project Grant to the Folger Shakespeare Library to catalog, digitize, and provide access to 17th-century British book illustrations from May 1, 2012 to October 31, 2018. This funding supported the Library's efforts under the Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program, which aims to preserve and provide intellectual access to humanities resources held in libraries, museums, and archives. Specifically, the grant enabled the Library to catalog and digitize illustrations from books published in Britain during the 17th century, then make those digital assets freely available online to support research. The project helped preserve a valuable collection of historical materials while promoting wider access to primary sources for scholarly study.