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Anacostia Community Museum
- Dates:
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2007 - 2008
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2.75 Linear feet (4 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- ACMA.03-052
- Repository:
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Anacostia Community Museum Archives
An exhibition to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the founding of the Anacostia Community Museum, formerly known as the Anacostia Neighborhood Museum, organized by the museum and held there September 15, 2007 through November 9, 2008. The exhibit explored the development of community life of neighborhoods east of the Anacostia River, beginning with the original inhabitation by Native Americans up to the present.
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1970-1975
bulk 1975-1975
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140 sound recordings (72 sound cassettes ; 68 sound disk CD-Rs)
58 electronic discs (dvd) (58 data disk DVD-Rs)
2 Linear feet
- Collection ID:
- ACMA.09-006
- Repository:
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Anacostia Community Museum Archives
The Anacostia Oral History Project Collection contains oral history interviews with 55 individuals who either grew up in or spent a considerable amount of time in the neighborhood. Interviewees discuss their memories of Anacostia dating back to the 1890s and points of focus include education, occupations, transportation, geographic boundaries, and ...
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Smith, Damballah Dolphus
American Red Cross
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1992
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5 Posters (28 x 24 inches)
- Collection ID:
- ACMA.10-004.11
- Repository:
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Anacostia Community Museum Archives
Proverb 1 "He who upsets a thing should know how to rearrange it" (Sierra Leonean) -- Proverb 3 "The ruin of a nation begins in the homes of its people" (Ghanian) -- Proverb 4 "He who does not cultivate his field will die of hunger" (Guinean)-- Proverb 5 "When spider webs unite they can tie up a lion" (Ethiopian)-- and Proverb 6 "He who conceals hi...
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Nesbit, Velma, 1925-2002
Berking, Peter
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circa 2000
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0.5 Linear feet (1 box, 6 linear inches)
- Collection ID:
- ACMA.06-127
- Repository:
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Anacostia Community Museum Archives
This collection, which dates from circa 2000, contains a 144-page typescript copy of the unpublished autobiography of Velma Nesbit, the daughter of an Alabama sharecropper. Also present are 14 audiocassettes, one diskette and four compact discs relating to Nesbit's life and career.
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Transportation Displays, Inc
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undated
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13 Posters
- Collection ID:
- ACMA.10-004.3
- Repository:
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Anacostia Community Museum Archives
Earthquake Series--1989 (Vol. VI, No. 2, Fall 1989) -- Henry Dumas, "Fir" (with a black & white photograph by David Lubbers); -- 1990 (Vol. VII, No. 1, Summer 1990)--Elizabeth Bishop, "Rain Towards Morning" (with a painting by Frank Stella) -- Jayne Cortez, "The Red Pepper Poet" (with a painting by James Cobb) -- Jack Marshall, "Dawn Notes" (with a...
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Anacostia Community Museum
- Dates:
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1994
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0.2 Linear feet (1 folder)
- Collection ID:
- ACMA.03-083
- Repository:
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Anacostia Community Museum Archives
Curated by César Piñeiro, Art-Caribe featured works of Puerto Rican born artist, Dennis Mario Rivera. The exhibition was organized by the Anacostia Museum and held there September 18, 1994 through November 06, 1994. Rivera uses his art to tell stories of his homeland and the Caribbean. Many of his works is this exhibit focused on the region's African heritage.
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United States. Army
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1974-1986
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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.
John Wesley Manuscript
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Wesley, John.
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circa 1920s-1930s
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0.5 Linear feet ((1 box))
- Collection ID:
- ACMA.06-120
- Repository:
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Anacostia Community Museum Archives
This collection contains a handwritten manuscript of approximately 200 pages by John Wesley. The manuscript gives a history of several generations of the Wesley family in Maryland.
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2009
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4.07 Megabytes (Digital Images)
- Collection ID:
- ACMA.06-115
- Repository:
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Anacostia Community Museum Archives
This collection includes three photographs of the A-frame house built by Barry Farm early settler William Fractious in 1867-68 on the 2100 block of Elvans Road in Southeast, Washington, DC. The images were taken in 2009 by Patricia Brown Savage while conducting research on the history of Elvans Road.
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Smithsonian Institution. Traveling Exhibition Service
- Dates:
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1983
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0.5 Linear feet (1 box)
- Collection ID:
- ACMA.03-002
- Repository:
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Anacostia Community Museum Archives
This show featured 36 portraits--27 oil paintings and 9 color photo reproductions--selected from the Harmon Foundation collection, from the National Portrait Gallery, as well as biographical information and memorabilia. Likenesses of blacks who made significant contributions in the fields of civil rights, law, education, medicine, the military, and the arts are on display. Included are Marian Anderson, Joe Lewis, W.E.B. duBois, Thurgood Marshall, George Washington Carver, Charles Drew, William Ayres Campbell, and Richard Barthe. It was exhibited at the Anacostia Neigborhood Museum from April 17, 1983 to August 21, 1983.