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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.
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19th Century Pamphlet Collection
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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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Anacostia Community Museum
- Dates:
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2010
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2.7 Linear feet (3 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- ACMA.03-056
- Repository:
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Anacostia Community Museum Archives
An exhibition documenting the historical journey made by people from Africa to the Americas, along with their language and music. In the 1930s, Lorenzo Dow Turner discovered that the Gullah people of Georgia and South Carolina retained parts of the culture and language of their West African enslaved ancestors. Turner's research produced a living treasury of previously unknown traditions, songs, and folkways that also uncovered and illuminated the connections with West African and Afro-Brazilian communities.
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United States. Bureau of Indian Affairs
Hamner, Lucile
- Dates:
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1935
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0.25 Linear feet
- Collection ID:
- NMAI.AC.079
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National Museum of the American Indian
This collection contains a U.S. Department of the Interior's Bureau of Indian Affairs report written by Lucile Hamner (1901-1997) documenting the housing conditions in the Lovelock Indian Colony Reservation region in Nevada in 1935.
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Anacostia Community Museum
- Dates:
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circa 1970s
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14 Video recordings (open reel, 1/2 inch)
15 Sound recordings (open reel, 1/4 inch)
- Collection ID:
- ACMA.09-037
- Repository:
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Anacostia Community Museum Archives
This collection includes news programs, television shows, and music recorded from local and national radio and television broadcasts as well as prerecorded programs, such as The Negro Texans and Alex Haley Lecture for the Doubleday Lecture Series. Anacostia Community Museum does not hold the copyright of the broadcast programs and prerecorded progr...
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Coppin, Kerry Stuart
- Dates:
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2006
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0.08 Linear feet ((6 folders))
- Collection ID:
- ACMA.06-053
- Repository:
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Anacostia Community Museum Archives
The collection, which dates from 2006 and measures .08 linear feet, documents community life in Senegal, Barbados and Cuba, as well as African-American community life in the United States. The collection is comprised of giclée prints.
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Muhammad, Amir N. (Amir Nashid)
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2005
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1 Sound recording
1 Video recording
- Collection ID:
- ACMA.03-071
- Repository:
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Anacostia Community Museum Archives
An exhibition on the presence and contributions of persons of African descent and Muslim heritage in America during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The exhibit presented vignettes of figures - enslaved and free - known for their passion for freedom, pioneering spirit, and faithfulness. Amir N. Muhammad and Collections and Stories of American Muslims, Inc.(CSAM) serve as guest curators for this exhibition held from July 11 to October 16, 2005. These records document the lecture and tour given by Amir N. Muhammad.
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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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Terrell, William Dandrige, 1871-1960s (radio communication specialist)
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1911-1965
- Size:
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0.5 Cubic feet (1 box)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0097
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection documents W.D.Terrell's life, specifically his work as Chief of the Radio Division in the Commerce Department. Terrell was responsible for monitoring the institution of radio into the nation's defense forces.
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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.