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
- Black Perspective Series: Sterling Brown
- Southeast Neighborhood House Executive Committee Meeting, Budget Presentation, and Tour
- John Kinard's Memorial Tribute at Smithsonian Institution
- Kwanzaa Programs 1976-1989
- Student Oratorical Contest on Frederick Douglass and Award Presentation
- Cultural Series: Apostles of Soul
- Footage of Fort Stanton (Washington, D.C.)
- Stanton Elementary School: Black History Week
- Coolidge Gospel Choir at Anacostia Neighborhood Museum
- Anacostia Neighborhood Museum: 10th Anniversary Board Banquet
- Interview with Marshall Jackson
- Museum Staff at Work
- How to Turn Your Classroom into a Museum: Education, Research, Display Construction, Title Cards
- Live Musical Performances at Anacostia Neighborhood Museum
- Interview: Pleasant Burke, A Man of Peace
- African Children Play Music
- Stone Cutting Demonstration
- Exhibit Center Lab
- What Historians Don't Talk About
- Anacostia Neighborhood Museum: Exhibition Construction and Exterior of Museum
- Dance Series: Sarah Lawrence Dance Troupe
- Video Camera Demonstration
- Rosalind Jeffries: Themes of African Art
- Gospel Truth