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
- Performances at Outdoor Event
- Interactive Discussion about History of Anacostia
- Education Program: Slavery Discussion and Pigment Demonstration
- Music Recordings: Rhythm and Blues
- Stokely Carmichael: Black People Must Organize
- Professor Jason Newman: Presentation on Home Rule Bill
- Education Program: Household Items
- Cornbread Players: Jazz Night
- Friendship Acupuncture Demonstration
- Interview with Margaret Christensen from Ghana
- Santa Claus in Anacostia
- Monrovia, Liberia, West Africa: A Trilogy
- Opening of Exhibit Workshop
- SAC 4 Bicentennial Project Proposal Presentations and Voting
- Poetry Reading by Sterling Brown
- Opening of the Exhibits Lab
- Black Perspective Series: Hassan Jeru-Ahmed
- African Games and Songs with Emmanuel Arinze
- Frederick Douglass Home
- Opening: B. Cider Show and Arthur Hall Dancers
- An Evening of Poetry by American Negro Poets
- Birney Elementary School: We Only Just Begun
- History of Anacostia by Thomas Cantwell
- Demonstration: Ice Cream Making