Lorton Reformatory: Slide Show Narration
Object Details
- Creator
- Anacostia Neighborhood Museum
- Scope and Contents
- For the exhibition Lorton Reformatory: Beyond Time, the narrator provides a short history as well as a description of the architectural look and feel of Lorton Reformatory. The dormitories, dining halls, barber shop, chapel, art studio, infirmary, arts and crafts building, ball field, miniature golf course, educational building, and maximum security cells are described. The narrator speaks of the marketable skills the inmates acquire in the barber shop, print shop, tag shop, garment shop, and car maintenance shop. The artistic pursuits of the inmates through the Inner Voices group, theatrical and band performances, and arts and crafts are also described.
- Narration. Part of Lorton Reformatory: Beyond Time Audiovisual Records. Undated.
- Date
- circa 1970
- Extent
- 1 Sound recording (open reel, 1/4 inch)
- Type
- Archival materials
- Sound recordings
- Narration
- Topic
- African Americans
- Prisons
- Prisoners
- Arts in prisons
- Museum exhibits
- Place
- Lorton (Va.)
- Anacostia (Washington, D.C.)
- Washington (D.C.)
- United States
- Series Citation
- Lorton Reformatory: Beyond Time Audiovisual Records, Exhibition Records AV03-053, Anacostia Community Museum Archives, Smithsonian Institution.
- Identifier
- ACMA.03-053, Item ACMA AV003328-1
- Local Numbers
- ACMA AV003328-2
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Lorton Reformatory: beyond time exhibition records
- Date
- 1970-10 - 1970-11