Anacostia Oral History Project, 1975
Object Details
- Scope and Contents note
- The Anacostia Oral History Project Collection contains oral history interviews with 55 individuals who either grew up in or spent a considerable amount of time in the neighborhood. Interviewees discuss their memories of Anacostia dating back to the 1890s and points of focus include education, occupations, transportation, geographic boundaries, and recreational and community activities. The interviews were conducted and recorded on audiocassettes in 1975 through the Center for Anacostia Studies and the Anacostia Community Museum. Most of the interviews have been digitized and are accessible in the archive on CDs.
- Biographical/Historical note
- The Center for Anacostia Studies was the predecessor of the Anacostia Neighborhood Museum research department.
- Date
- 1970-1975
- bulk 1975-1975
- Extent
- 140 Sound recordings (72 sound cassettes ; 68 sound disk CD-Rs)
- 58 Electronic discs (DVD) (58 data disk DVD-Rs)
- 2 Linear feet
- Citation
- Anacostia Oral History Project, Anacostia Community Museum Archives, Smithsonian Institution
- Type
- Collection descriptions
- Archival materials
- Sound recordings
- Electronic discs (dvd)
- Oral history
- Interviews
- Topic
- African Americans
- Place
- Anacostia (Washington, D.C.)
- Identifier
- ACMA.09-006

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EAD Collection Results
59 result(s) Skip to facets for narrowing search results- Oral history interview with Edith Green
- Oral history interview with Edward Edwards
- Oral history interview with Mr. Anton Jones
- Oral history interview with Robert E. Dyson
- Oral history interview with Scott Norris
- Oral history interview with Ella Bransom
- Oral history interview with John Dale
- Oral history interview with Carolyn Taylor Crocker
- Oral history interview with Maurice Hill
- Oral history interview with Beatrice Price
- Oral history interview with Edward Brazerol
- Oral history interview with Carrie Young
- Oral history interview with Henry Sayles
- Oral history interview with Mary Kidd
- Oral history interview with George Patterson
- Oral history interview with Charles A. Williams
- Oral history interview with Arthur Morresett
- Oral history interview with Esther Johnson
- Oral history interview with James Banks
- Oral history interview with Ethel Green
- Oral history interview with Maggie Taylor
- Oral history interview with Norman Dale
- Recording from the Anacostia 1891 Star Paper "Roadside Sketches" and Washingtonian Clippings
- Oral history interview with Raymond Bombray