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The Magic Door with Louise Hutchinson

Object Details

Creator: WMAL-TV (Television station : Washington, D.C.); WJLA-TV (Television station : Washington, D.C.)

Scope and Contents: On the educational children's television program The Magic Door, Louise Hutchinson discusses the history of Anacostia from the Nacochtank Indians to Frederick Douglass. Discussion directed toward children and accompanied by illustrations, maps, photographs, and a short film of the Frederick Douglass home.; Television program from 000655 to 002517 (preceded by News Reports: John Kinard on the Selection of D.C. Superintendent and followed by Children Singing in Outdoor Concert). Part of Broadcast Programs. Dated 19731005.

Date: 1973

Extent: 1 Video recording (open reel, 1/2 inch)

Type: Archival materials; Video recordings; Television programs

Topic: African Americans; Communities; African American neighborhoods; Neighborhoods; Children

Place: Anacostia (Washington, D.C.); Washington (D.C.); United States

Citation: The Magic Door with Louise Hutchinson, Record Group 09-037, Anacostia Community Museum Archives, Smithsonian Institution.

Identifier: ACMA.09-037, Item ACMA AV003222

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Broadcast Programs

Scope and Contents

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 programs in this collection. Content includes news coverage of Anacostia and Washington, DC events; announcements about and coverage of the Anacostia Neighborhood Museum events; broadcasts of Martin Luther King, Jr's speeches; interviews with civil right leaders; and short documentaries.

Date

circa 1970s

Extent

14 Video recordings (open reel, 1/2 inch)

15 Sound recordings (open reel, 1/4 inch)

Citation

Broadcast Programs, Record Group 09-037, Anacostia Community Museum Archives, Smithsonian Institution.

Type

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Video recordings

Sound recordings

Topic

Community museums

Civil rights leaders

Place

Anacostia (Washington, D.C.)

Washington (D.C.)

United States

Identifier

ACMA.09-037