Dale-Patterson Family collection
Object Details
- Scope and Contents note
- The Dale-Patterson family papers, which date from 1866 to 1990 and measure 6 linear feet, document the personal and professional lives of the Dale-Patterson family who came to live in Hillsdale, Anacostia, area of Washington, D.C., in 1892. The collection is comprised of correspondence, photographs, clippings, and ephemera.
- Biographical/Historical note
- The Dale family came to Washington, DC in 1886 when John Henry Dale, Sr., a gifted self-taught man, obtained a position as clerk in the newly contracted Pension Bureau building at 5th and G Streets, NW. First they lived near 13th Street and Florida Avenue, NW, then moved to Howard Road in Anacostia. Dale built a house at 2619 Nichols Avenue, now Martin Luther King, Jr. Avenue, drawing the plans and supervising the construction. The Dales and only one other family lived in this solidly built house for 100 years before it was sold to a church group and demolished.
- Date
- 1866 - 1990.
- Extent
- 6 Linear feet (9 boxes)
- Provenance
- The Dale-Patterson Family collection was donated to the Anacostia Community Museum on April 07, 2013.
- Rights
- The Dale-Patterson Family collection is the physical property of the Anacostia Community Museum. Literary and copyright belong to the author/creator or their legal heirs and assigns. Rights to work produced during the normal course of Museum business resides with the Anacostia Community Museum. For further information, and to obtain permission to publish or reproduce, contact the Museum Archives.
- Citation
- Dale-Patterson Family collection, Anacostia Community Museum Archives, Smithsonian Institution, gift of Dianne Dale.
- Type
- Collection descriptions
- Archival materials
- Photographs
- Programs
- Clippings
- Correspondence
- Ephemera
- Postcards
- Topic
- African Americans
- African American families
- Place
- Anacostia (Washington, D.C.)
- Identifier
- ACMA.06-074
- General Note
- Finding Aid Note: This finding aid is associated with a MARC collection-level record.361883
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EAD Collection Results
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Almore Dale viewing fruit display
- Patterson, Wilhelmina--Shiloh Baptist Church events
- Patterson, Wilhelmina--Portraits
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Wilhelmina Patterson sitting at piano
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Group portrait with Wilhelmina Bessie Patterson
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Almore Dale standing near car
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Debutante Cotillion portrait
- Dale, Almore--Portraits and snapshots
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Postcard, Frederick Douglass Patterson, President Tuskegee Institute
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Birney School Life Magazine
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Family portrait
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Glamour Pix portrait of Thelma D. Perkins
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Norman and Almore Dale
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Barry Farm Recreation Center
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Dale, Almore--Dale's Market
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Birney School Life Magazine
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Portrait of Wilhelmina Patterson
- Family Photographs
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Interior of Dale's Market
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Anacostia AC's Baseball team
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Almore Dale
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Birney School Life Magazine
- Correspondence
- Patterson, Frederick Douglass--Snapshot wearing Presidential Medal of Freedom surrounded by family in Anacostia
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- online_visual_material
- type