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Anacostia Museum and Center for African American History and Culture
- Dates:
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1992-1998
- Size:
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3 Linear feet (3 boxes)
1 Video recording (1 VHS 1/2" video recording)
87 Cubic feet (1 DAT sound recording ; 6 microcassette sound recordings ; 80 audio cassette sound recordings)
- Collection ID:
- ACMA.AV09-014
- Repository:
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Anacostia Community Museum Archives
This collection contains audiovisul documentation of the work conducted by the Center for African American History and Culture. It includes sound and video recordings of interviews, programs, and exhibit-related materials created before the Center for African American and Culture merged with the Anacostia Community Museum.
The Weekly News, (Anacostia [i.e. Washington] D.C.)
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- Dates:
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1909
- Size:
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1.6 Linear feet (2 oversize folders)
- Collection ID:
- ACMA.10-012.4
- Repository:
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Anacostia Community Museum Archives
This collection of The Weekly News newspaper spans from August 7, 1909 to December 11, 1909, and measures 1.6 linear feet. The Washington, DC-based paper was "Devoted to the East Section of the Anacostia River," with the stated motto of "A Paper in Every Home." The Weekly reported on church news and society events, contained advertisements for neighborhood businesses, and listed places of interest, such as the Frederick Douglass Home and the Fort Stanton Civil War Fort.
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United States. Army
- Dates:
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1974-1986
- Size:
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3 Linear feet (3 boxes)
29 Video recordings (29 U-matic 3/4" video recordings)
- Collection ID:
- ACMA.09-015
- Repository:
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Anacostia Community Museum Archives
This collection contains United States Army-produced videos collected by the Center for African American History and Culture. The video programs focus on race relations and blacks in the military.
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Anacostia Community Museum
- Dates:
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2004
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2 Sound recordings (2 MiniDisc sound recordings)
8 Video recordings (5 VHS 1/2" video recordings ; 3 DVCAM video recordings)
0.5 Linear feet (1 box)
- Collection ID:
- ACMA.09-017
- Repository:
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Anacostia Community Museum Archives
This collection contains the audiovisual materials created for the project I, Too, Sing America: The African American Personal Narrative in American History. Completed in February 2006, the project used diaries, letters, photographs, legal documents, and other objects handed down through families and others to spotlight the perspective of the Afric...
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Anacostia Community Museum
- Dates:
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November 12-13, 2010
- Size:
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0.15 Linear feet (1 box; 9 miniDV video recordings; 1 CD-R sound recordings)
- Collection ID:
- ACMA.09-013
- Repository:
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Anacostia Community Museum Archives
Connecting the Worlds of the African Diaspora: The Living Legacy of Lorenzo Dow Turner was a symposium held at the Anacostia Community Museum November 12-13, 2010. The keynote speaker was Emory Shaw Campbell, and other participants included Alcione M. Amos, Herb Frazier, Thomas B. Klein, Livio Sansone, and Kevin A. Yalvington. The symposium was hel...
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- Dates:
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1991
- Size:
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0.01 Linear feet (1 folder)
- Collection ID:
- ACMA.06-096
- Repository:
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Anacostia Community Museum Archives
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- Dates:
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1973-1974
- Size:
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1.29 Linear feet (1 box)
- Collection ID:
- ACMA.06-084
- Repository:
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Anacostia Community Museum Archives
Carol and Katie Davis Collection of Adams Morgan Ephemera, which dates from 1973-1974 and measures 1.29 linear feet, documents the growth and flourishing of neigborhood activism in Washington, DC both before and after the arrival of Home Rule. The collection includes copies of The Columbian newspaper, the self-proclaimed "Community Newspaper of Adams Morgan," also published as "Noticierio Columbian."
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Fauntroy, William T. Jr., 1926
- Dates:
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1962-2001
- Size:
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1.4 Linear feet (1 Box)
- Collection ID:
- ACMA.06-088
- Repository:
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Anacostia Community Museum Archives
William T. Fauntroy, Jr. WMATA collection, which dates from 1962 to 2001 and measures 1.4 linear feet, documents the development of the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA). The collection includes annual reports, newsletters, brochures, and photographs.
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- Dates:
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circa 1800 - circa 1898
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3.4 Linear feet ((30 books))
- Collection ID:
- ACMA.06-107
- Repository:
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Anacostia Community Museum Archives
This collection, which dates from the 19th century, contains 30 books written by or concerning African-Americans. The books are largely non-fiction and include material relating to African-American churches and evangelists, fraternal organizations, prominent members of the African-American Community, former slaves, education and self-improvement. Also present are several volumes of poetry, a tax ledger and a volume concerning patents.
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- Dates:
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circa 1885-1969
- Size:
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17.1 Linear feet ((123 books))
- Collection ID:
- ACMA.06-106
- Repository:
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Anacostia Community Museum Archives
This collection, which dates from circa 1885-1969, contains 123 books written by or concerning African-Americans and African-American history. The books are a mix of fiction and non-fiction; several volumes of the journal American Heritage are also present.
