Help the North Carolina Museum of History protect our state treasures by adopting an artifact that requires conservation. Your tax-deductible donation in any amount will help support the museum's mission of preserving artifacts and other historical materials relating to the history and heritage of North Carolina.

Artifacts from the museum's collection available for sponsorship include:

	One of the few surviving eighteenth-century North Carolina Masonic aprons, ca. 1770–1789, reportedly owned by Governor Richard Caswell. Estimated cost of conservation: $5,000–$10,000.
	Brown satin dress, ca. 1795, that belonged to Nancy Grist Grimes (Mrs. Bryan Grimes) of Pitt County, mother of Confederate general Bryan Grimes. Estimated cost of conservation: $10,000–$12,000.
	Oil-on-canvas portrait of Willie Blount (1768–1835), a native of Craven County and the governor of Tennessee from 1809 to 1815. Estimated cost of conservation: $8,500.
	Rare Whig Party political banner, ca. 1840, associated with the presidential campaign of William Henry Harrison, made by the girls of Greensboro's Edgeworth Female Seminary and presented to the Tippecanoe Club of Guilford on July 4, 1840. Estimated cost of conservation: $25,000.
	Oil-on-canvas portrait of Walter Hines Page (1855–1918), a native of Wake County, journalist, and publisher who served as ambassador to the United Kingdom during World War I. Estimated cost of conservation: $4,650.

Donations
Checks should be made out to the N.C. Museum of History Foundation, Inc., and mailed to Heyward H. McKinney, Chief Operations Officer, N.C. Museum of History, 5 E. Edenton Street, Raleigh, NC 27601.

Questions or comments? Contact Hal McKinney at 919-807-7871 or heyward.mckinney@ncdcr.gov.