Still Prints of Asia: The Delhi Durbar
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Bourne and Shepherd
- Dates:
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circa 1903
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5 Prints (albumen, unmounted, images 24 x 28 cm. or smaller.)
- Collection ID:
- FSA.A1999.04
- Repository:
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Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives
Five albumen prints from the studio of Bourne and Shepherd, circa 1903. Each blind stamped "Bourne & Shepherd" in the lower right corner. One print has the inscription "The Delhi Durbar, which took place at Delhi, India. In honor of the crowning of King Edward." written across the top in black ink.
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Smithsonian Institution. Anacostia Community Museum
- Dates:
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undated
- Size:
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1.25 Linear feet (4 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- ACMA.03-044
- Repository:
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Anacostia Community Museum Archives
An exhibition on contemporary African American women artists curated by Robert L. Hall and exhibited at the Anacostia Museum of the Smithsonian Institution from November 1990 to April 1991. Artists included are: Erlena Chisolm Bland, Lilian Thomas Burwell, Yvonne Pickering Carter, Margo Humphrey, Martha Jackson-Jarvis, Viola Burley Leak, Winnie Owens-Hart, Stephanie E. Pogue, Malkia Roberts, Gail Shaw-Clemons, Sylvia Snowden, Renée Stout, Denise Ward-Brown, Joyce E. Wellman, and Adell Westbrook.
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Smithsonian Institution. Anacostia Community Museum
- Dates:
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1982-11-14 - 1983-02-27
- Size:
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0.9 Linear feet (2 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- ACMA.03-054
- Repository:
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Anacostia Community Museum Archives
An exhibition on selected works by John N. Robinson and Larry Lebby. The exhibition, held at the Anacostia Neighborhood Museum, ran from November 14, 1982 --February 27, 1983. These records document the planning, organizing, execution, and promotion of the exhibition. Materials include correspondence, research files, exhibit scripts, administrative records, brochures, education packets, floor plans, and catalogues.
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Apeda Studio (New York, N.Y.)
Camuzzi, M.
Harris & Ewing
Sommariva, Emilio, Photographer, 1883-1956
More … - Dates:
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circa 1850-1997
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25.54 Linear feet (46 boxes; 3 cabinet drawers)
- Collection ID:
- ACMA.06-016
- Repository:
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Anacostia Community Museum Archives
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Lucus, Ethel Minns
Lucus, James William
- Dates:
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circa 1902-1990
bulk 1919-1960
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0.53 Linear feet (3 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- ACMA.06-023
- Repository:
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Anacostia Community Museum Archives
The collection, which dates from circa 1902 to 1990 and measures .53 linear feet, documents the personal and professional lives of James William Lucus and Ethel Minns Lucus. The collection is comprised of photographs, correspondence, postcards, newspaper clippings, diplomas, awards, pamphlets, leaflets, programs, and vital statistics records.
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Sullivan family
- Dates:
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1860-1994
bulk 1920-1960
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2.25 Linear feet (7 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- ACMA.06-035
- Repository:
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Anacostia Community Museum Archives
The Sullivan Family papers, which date from 1880 to 1994 and measure 2.25 linear feet, document the personal lives of four generations in the Sullivan Family. The papers are comprised of personal correspondence, school materials, legal documents, financial records, clippings, books, posters, and photographs.
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Whitehead, Henry P. (Prenton), 1917-2002
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1843-2010
bulk 1940-1986
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156.91 Linear feet (178 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- ACMA.06-042
- Repository:
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Anacostia Community Museum Archives
The papers of historian Henry P. Whitehead measure 156.91 linear feet and date from 1843 to 2010 (bulk 1945-1986). The collection documents Whitehead's careers, as well as his family and personal life. The collection also includes the personal papers of Tomlinson D. Todd, Elizabeth B. Delaney and the Howard Theatre Foundation. The combined collection is comprised of black theatrical memorabilia; materials relating to civil rights activities in the District of Columbia; and the African American experience in general. Included are playbills, sheet music, admission tickets, newspapers, magazines, books, photographs, clippings, flyers, brochures, pamphlets, sound recordings, research files, and other material.
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circa 1859 - 1894
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1.63 Linear feet ((2 boxes))
- Collection ID:
- ACMA.06-112
- Repository:
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Anacostia Community Museum Archives
This collection, which dates from circa 1859-1894, contains materials relating to abolitionist Frederick Douglass. It includes several of his speeches reproduced in booklets and pamphlets, a visiting card, a portrait bearing his autograph, and 28 issues of Douglass'Monthly, which ran from 1858 to 1863.
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1838 - 1898
- Size:
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0.5 Linear feet (1 box)
- Collection ID:
- ACMA.06-119
- Repository:
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Anacostia Community Museum Archives
This collection, which dates from 1838-1898, contains nine pamphlets and one booklet. The materials cover various subjects relating to African-Americans, including civil rights, education, the Civil War draft and services for freedmen. Several of the pamphlets contain speeches by Frederick Douglass.
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1933-1935
- Size:
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1.67 Linear feet (1 oversize box)
- Collection ID:
- ACMA.10-012.3
- Repository:
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Anacostia Community Museum Archives
This collection of New NegroOpinion newspapers spans from December 16, 1933 to April 18, 1935, and measures 1.67 linear feet. The Washington, DC-based paper was published weekly by the New Negro Alliance, which was established in 1933 by John Aubrey Davis, Belford V. Lawson, and M. Franklin Thorne to protest discrimination in employment practices in stores doing business in black neighborhoods. William H. Hastie, the first African American federal judge served as the assistant editor and a columnist for the weekly.