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MS 7532 "Negro Folktales from the Gulf States"
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Creators:
Hurston, Zora Neale
Dates:
1927-1929
Size:
248 Pages
Collection ID:
NAA.MS7532
Repository:
National Anthropological Archives

The folklore (stories, jokes, and sayings) was recorded by Hurston and used to prepare her book Mules and Men. The NAA vertical files includes a letter from Drs. Akua Duku Anokye and Sally McLendon with related copies of letters written by Hurston concerning the background of the document and Anokye and McLendon's opinion that it represents the "sc...

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Digitized Content Oral history interview with Guerrilla Girls Zora Neale Hurston and Agnes Martin
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Creators:
Guerrilla Girls (Group of artists)
Richards, Judith Olch
Dates:
2008 May 17
Size:
2 Items (wav files (1 hr., 59 min.), digital)
59 Pages (Transcript)
Collection ID:
AAA.guergirl4
Repository:
Archives of American Art

An interview with Guerrilla Girls using the names Zora Neale Hurston and Agnes Martin, conducted 2008 May 17, by Judith Olch Richards, for the Archives of American Art at iCI, 799 Broadway, in New York, N.Y.

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Digitized Content Prentiss Taylor papers
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Creators:
Taylor, Prentiss, 1907-1991
Dates:
1885-1991
Size:
20.8 Linear feet
Collection ID:
AAA.taylpren
Repository:
Archives of American Art

The collection measures 20.8 linear feet, dates from 1885 to 1991 (bulk dates 1908-1986) and documents the career of lithographer, teacher, and painter Prentiss Taylor. The collection consists primarily of subject/correspondence files (circa 16 ft.), reflecting Prentiss' career as a lithographer and painter, his association with figures prominent in the Harlem Renaissance, notably Carl Van Vechten and Langston Hughes, his activities as president of the Society of Washington Printmakers and other art organizations, his work in art therapy treating mental illness, and his teaching position at American University. The subject files contain mostly correspondence, but many include photographs and printed material. Also included are biographical, financial, legal and printed material; several hundred photographs; notes and writings; sketchbooks, drawings and a few prints by Taylor; and scrapbooks dating from 1885-1956.

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Copies of Franz Boas photographs of Kwakiutl Indians
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Creators:
Boas, Franz, 1858-1942
Dates:
circa 1894
Size:
3 Copy prints
Collection ID:
NAA.PhotoLot.R97-19
Repository:
National Anthropological Archives

Photographs probably depicting Kwakiutl Indians, including a man in a blanket, a man wearing a bird mask and cedarbark dress, and a woman holding up a cradle or load.

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All the Stories Are True: African American Writers Speak exhibition records
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Creators:
Anacostia Community Museum
Dates:
2003-2004
Size:
10 Sound recordings (5 CD-RW audio recordings ; 5 MiniDisc audio recordings)
45 Video recordings (5 DigiBeta video recordings; 2 Betacam SP video recordings; 9 DVCAM video recordings; 19 miniDV video recordings; 10 DVD-R video recordings)
1 Boxe (1 box of index card video logs)
0.75 Linear feet (3 boxes)
Collection ID:
ACMA.03-060
Repository:
Anacostia Community Museum Archives

Audiovisual materials created for an exhibition on the rich tradition of African American storytelling, which is celebrated through videotaped interviews with professional writers telling compelling stories drawn from their own experiences and revealing how the world in which they live impacts their writing. A portion of the exhibition is devoted t...

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Video Dialogues in Anthropology
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Creators:
Burns, Allan F. (Allan Frank), 1945-
Bernard, H. Russell (Harvey Russell), 1940-
Wagley, Charles, 1913-1991
Dates:
1982-1990
Size:
27 Videocassettes (VHS) (54 hours, color sound)
Collection ID:
HSFA.1989.10
Repository:
Human Studies Film Archives

Collection consists of VHS videos from the Visual History of Anthropology Project. In 1984 Allan F. Burns, Russell Bernard and Charles Wagley, anthropologists in the Department of Anthropology, University of Florida, Gainesville, initiated a history of anthropology project consisting of 28 video oral histories of retired or soon to be retired ant...

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The Renaissance: Black arts of the Twenties exhibition records
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Creators:
Smithsonian Institution. Anacostia Community Museum
Dates:
1985-09 - 1986-12
Size:
10.55 Linear feet (16 boxes)
Collection ID:
ACMA.03-024
Repository:
Anacostia Community Museum Archives

An exhibition on the history and art of the Harlem Renaissance. The exhibition, held at the Anacostia Neighborhood Museum, ran from September 1985-December 1986. 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, floor plans, and catalogues.

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Subject Files
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Creators:
Anacostia Community Museum. Office of the Director
Dates:
1978, 1986, 1990-2016
Size:
5 cu. ft. (5 record storage boxes)
Collection ID:
Accession 17-316
Repository:
Smithsonian Institution Archives

This accession consists of subject files documenting the administration of the Anacostia Community Museum (ACM), previously known as the Anacostia Neighborhood Museum (ANM), 1967-1987, the Anacostia Museum, 1987-1995, and the Anacostia Museum and Center for African American History and Culture, 1995-2006, during the tenures of directors S...

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Bernice Johnson Reagon Oral History Interviews
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Creators:
Reagon, Bernice Johnson, 1942-, interviewee
Dates:
1986
Size:
3 audiotapes (Reference copies).
Collection ID:
Accession 009612
Repository:
Smithsonian Institution Archives

The Oral History Program is part of the Smithsonian Institution Archives. The purpose of the program is to conduct interviews with current and retired members of the Smithsonian staff who have made significant contributions, administrative and scholarly, to the Institution. The project's goal is to supplement the published record and manuscrip...

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Black women: achievements against the odds exhibition records
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Creators:
Smithsonian Institution. Traveling Exhibition Service
Smithsonian Institution. Anacostia Community Museum
Dates:
1976-02 - 1976-12
Size:
7.92 Linear feet (3 boxes)
Collection ID:
ACMA.03-028
Repository:
Anacostia Community Museum Archives

An exhibition on two-hundred years of achievements by black women. The show was created and circulated by the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service. It was exhibited at the Anacostia Museum from February 1976 to December 1976. 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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