Museum Events, Programs, and Projects, 1967-1989
Object Details
- 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
- Topic
- African Americans
- Place
- Anacostia (Washington, D.C.)
- Identifier
- ACMA.09-023
- General
- Many of the video recordings originally recorded onto 1/2" open reel were transferred to VHS in 1990.
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EAD Collection Results
- Live Performance of Calypso Music
- Black Awareness Through Dance
- Meeting on the Bicentennial Assembly
- Black Perspective Series: Sterling Brown
- Southeast Neighborhood House Executive Committee Meeting, Budget Presentation, and Tour
- Ed Dwight Interview
- Kwanzaa Programs 1976-1989
- Student Oratorical Contest on Frederick Douglass and Award Presentation
- Cultural Series: Apostles of Soul
- Religious Service at John Wesley A.M.E. Zion Church
- Footage of Fort Stanton (Washington, D.C.)
- Stanton Elementary School: Black History Week
- Black Military and Anacostia Forts during the Civil War
- Coolidge Gospel Choir at Anacostia Neighborhood Museum
- Battle Hymn of the Republic by Nineteen Street Baptist Church
- Recording of Anacostia Neighborhood Museum opening and various anniversary celebrations
- Public Performance: Shakespeare Plays
- Kwanzaa Sound Tape
- History and Performance of Black Music
- Museum Staff at Work
- The Ballad of the Black Dragon Rehearsal
- Live Musical Performances at Anacostia Neighborhood Museum
- Christianity in Ethiopia
- John Kinard Perspectives on Africa