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
- WJLA 'Community 7' Segment: Interview with Zora Martin-Felton
- Coolidge Gospel Choir at Anacostia Neighborhood Museum
- Battle Hymn of the Republic by Nineteen Street Baptist Church
- Anacostia Neighborhood Museum: 10th Anniversary Board Banquet
- Recording of Anacostia Neighborhood Museum opening and various anniversary celebrations
- Public Performance: Shakespeare Plays
- Kwanzaa Sound Tape
- Interview with Marshall Jackson
- History and Performance of Black Music
- Museum Staff at Work
- How to Turn Your Classroom into a Museum: Education, Research, Display Construction, Title Cards
- The Ballad of the Black Dragon Rehearsal
- Live Musical Performances at Anacostia Neighborhood Museum
- Christianity in Ethiopia
- John Kinard Perspectives on Africa
- Anacostia Neighborhood Museum: 3rd Anniversary Celebration
- Interview: Pleasant Burke, A Man of Peace
- Meeting Regarding Proposed Black Museum at Wilberforce
- African Children Play Music
- Stone Cutting Demonstration
- Live Performance: Margaret Santiago
- John Kinard Talks About Leadership and Working with Anacostians
- Exhibit Center Lab
- What Historians Don't Talk About