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Anacostia Community Museum
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2007 - 2008
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2.75 Linear feet (4 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- ACMA.03-052
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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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Anacostia Community Museum
- Dates:
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1995
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0.29 Linear feet (1 box)
- Collection ID:
- ACMA.03-041
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Anacostia Community Museum Archives
Held at the Anacostia Museum from June 17, 1995 to August 28, 1995, this exhibition was the result of a partnership between the museum and Lucy Ellen Moton Elementary School. During the 1994-95 school years, the students researched the community of Anacostia and produced photographs, poems, stories, drawings, interviews, documents, and personal artifacts. The student efforts were included under the themes: Moten Elementary School, From Our Homes, Institutions and Organizations, and Community Life.
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Smithsonian Institution. Anacostia Community Museum
North Brentwood Historical Society (North Brentwood, Md.)
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1996-04 - 1996-12
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2.42 Linear feet (3 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- ACMA.03-019
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Anacostia Community Museum Archives
An exhibition on the North Brentwood neighborhood of Washington, DC. The show was created by the Anacostia Community Museum in collaboration with the North Brentwood Historical Society. It was exhibited at the museum from April 1996 to December 1996. These records document the planning, organizing, execution, and promotion of the exhibition. Materials include correspondence, research files, exhibit scripts, administrative records, brochures, press coverage, education packets, loan agreements, and floor plans.
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Anacostia story: 1608-1930 exhibition records
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Smithsonian Institution. Anacostia Community Museum
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circa 1977-1978
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15.25 Linear feet (26 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- ACMA.03-039
- Repository:
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Anacostia Community Museum Archives
An exhibition on history of the Anacostia neighborhood of Washington, D. C. The show was organized by the Anacostia Neighborhood Museum and held there from March of 1977 to March 1978. Louise Daniel Hutchinson served as curator. These records document the planning, organizing, execution, and promotion of the exhibition. Materials include correspondence, research files, exhibit script, administrative records, brochures, posters, press coverage, education packets, loan agreements, floor plans, and catalogues.
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Bazemore, Henry
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circa 1940s
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0.42 Linear feet ((1 box))
- Collection ID:
- ACMA.06-067
- Repository:
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Anacostia Community Museum Archives
The collection, dated circa 1940s and measuring .42 linear feet, documents the lives and activities of the residents of the Frederick Douglass Dwellings. The collection is comprised of black-and-white photographs.
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Anderson, Harold M.
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1948-1952
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1 Item (1 reel.)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1197
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Black Wall Street was a vibrant African American community in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Filmed between 1948 and 1952 Reverend Harold M. Anderson's Black Wall Street Film documents many of the neighborhood's businesses including barber shops, bakers, taxi companies, jewelers, and other stores. Reverend Anderson also captured its citizens in church, at school, participating in parades, and walking around the area. The film includes footage Richard and Pat Nixon as they campaigned in Black Wall Street, the first vice-presidential candidate to visit the African American neighborhood.
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Anacostia Community Museum
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1898-1988
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2.26 Cubic feet (1 box, 1 oversized box.)
- Collection ID:
- ACMA.03-040
- Repository:
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Anacostia Community Museum Archives
The records of the Evolution of a Community: 1972 Exhibition presented by the Anacostia Community Museum measure 2.26 cubic feet and date from 1898 to 1988. Included are exhibit administrative files, lists of images, press releases for the promotion of the exhibit, oral history transcripts and permission forms, and extensive research files into the...
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circa 1940s-1990s
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1.5 Linear feet ((3 boxes))
- Collection ID:
- ACMA.06-066
- Repository:
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Anacostia Community Museum Archives
The collection, which dates from circa 1940s to 1990s and measures 1.15 linear feet, documents the daily lives and activities of the residents of the Frederick Douglass Dwellings and other areas of Anacostia, as well as the demolition of the Frederick Douglass Dwellings. The collection is comprised of color and black-and-white photographs, studio portraits, slides, negatives, documents from community organizations, magazines and clippings.
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Bryan, Percival
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1932-1993
bulk 1942-1980
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5.94 Linear feet (20 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- ACMA.06-001
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Anacostia Community Museum Archives
The collection, which dates from 1932 to 1993 and measures 5.94 linear feet, documents the career and personal life of Washington, DC cabdriver Percival Bryan. The collection is comprised of an autobiography, autograph books, citations, correspondence, memorabilia, photographic prints, and printed materials.
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Hudson, Ruth Marie.
- Dates:
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circa 1930
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9 Negatives (photographic)
19 Photographic prints
- Collection ID:
- ACMA.06-036
- Repository:
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Anacostia Community Museum Archives
This collection, which dates from circa 1930, contains 19 black-and-white photographic prints and 9 black-and-white negatives depicting the family of Mrs. Ruth Marie Hudson, as well as the black community in Eustis, Florida. The images portray African American men, women and children.
