Harlem Renaissance Exhibit Tape
Object Details
- Creator
- Anacostia Neighborhood Museum
- Scope and Contents
- Harlem Renaissance Exhibit Tape provides a brief overview of the exhibition, The Renaissance: Black Arts of the Twenties, which presents the evolution and achievements of black creative expression beginning in Harlem and spreading across the United States during th 1920s. Literary, visual, performance, and cinematic achievements are highlighted. Including Marcus Garvey, James Weldon Johnson, Jessie Fauset, A. Philip Randolph, Claude McKay, Langston Hughes, Countee Cullen, Alain Locke, Paul Robeson, Fletcher Henderson, Bessie Smith, and Duke Ellington. Exhibit Tape also provides historical context of Harlem and the Renaissance, and highlights educational offerings provided by the Anacostia Neighborhood Museum, including artifacts, film footage, and programs.
- Short exhibition film. Part of The Renaissance: Black Arts of the Twenties Audiovisual Records. AV003431: outtakes. AV003439: narration. AV003430: narration outtakes. AV003325 and AV003431: undated. AV003439 and AV003430: dated 19861110.
- Date
- circa 1985
- Extent
- 1 Video recording (open reel, 1 inch)
- 3 Sound recordings (open reel, 1/4 inch)
- Type
- Archival materials
- Video recordings
- Sound recordings
- Documentary films
- Narration
- Occupation
- Artists
- Topic
- African Americans
- African American women
- Harlem Renaissance
- African American authors
- African American women authors
- Authors
- African American artists
- Sculpture
- Painting
- African Americans in the performing arts
- Musical theater
- African American musicians
- Musicians
- Jazz
- Museum exhibits
- Place
- Harlem (New York, N.Y.)
- Anacostia (Washington, D.C.)
- Washington (D.C.)
- United States
- Citation
- Harlem Renaissance Exhibit Tape, Exhibition Records AV03-024, Anacostia Community Museum Archives, Smithsonian Institution.
- Identifier
- ACMA.03-024, Item ACMA AV003325
- Local Numbers
- ACMA AV003431 ACMA AV003439 ACMA AV003430
- General
- Title transcribed from physical asset.
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- Date
- 1985-09 - 1986-12