Historical Reenactments at Colonial Williamsburg
Object Details
- Creator
- Anacostia Neighborhood Museum
- Scope and Contents
- Historical reenactors and artisans talk about and illustrate working in the kitchen, creating candles from bayberries and beeswax, making roof shingles for buildings, basket making, and metal working during the 18th century in the United States. Footage of Williamsburg, including exteriors of historical buildings.
- Footage of buildings and historical reenactments. Part of ACM Museum Events, PR, and Ceremonies Recordings. Undated.
- Date
- circa 1970s
- Extent
- 1 Video recording (open reel, 1/2 inch)
- Type
- Archival materials
- Video recordings
- Topic
- African Americans
- Museums
- Historic sites
- Historical reenactments
- Museum techniques
- Blacks -- History
- Artisans
- African American artisans
- Place
- Colonial Williamsburg (Williamsburg, Va.)
- Anacostia (Washington, D.C.)
- Washington (D.C.)
- United States
- Culture
- African American
- Citation
- Historical Reenactments at Colonial Williamsburg, Record Group AV09-023, Anacostia Community Museum Archives, Smithsonian Institution.
- Identifier
- ACMA.09-023, Item ACMA AV003198
Related Content
1 result(s)-
Museum Events, Programs, and Projects, 1967-1989
- Scope and Contents note
- This collection contains video and audio recordings of events, talks, and ceremonies hosted at or by the Anacostia Community Museum. It also contains audiovisual PR materials for the museum and its events. The collection includes recordings of a wide array of events, including the opening of the Anacostia Community Museum, award and dedication ceremonies, and documentation of on- and off-site events and talks, such as recordings of lectures and sermons delivered by founding Museum Director John Kinard.
- Date
- 1967-1989
- Extent
- 12 Linear feet
- 392 Sound recordings (50 open reel 1/4" sound recordings ; 5 microcassette sound recordings ; 337 audio cassette sound recordings)
- 266 Video recordings (1 Super 8 film reel ; 152 open reel 1/2" video recordings ; 3 U-matic 3/4" video recordings ; 110 VHS 1/2" video recordings)
- Citation
- Anacostia Community Museum Programs and Projects, 1967-1989, Anacostia Community Museum Archives, Smithsonian Institution.
- Type
- Collection descriptions
- Archival materials
- Sound recordings
- Video recordings
- Museum records
- Place
- Anacostia (Washington, D.C.)
- Culture
- African American
- Identifier
- ACMA.09-023
- General
- Many of the video recordings originally recorded onto 1/2" open reel were transferred to VHS in 1990.