Object Details
Creator
Anacostia Neighborhood Museum
Hutchinson, Louise Daniel (19280603-20141012)
Names
Anacostia Community Museum
Anacostia Neighborhood Museum
Birney Elementary School
Douglass Hall (Washington, D.C.)
United States. Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands
Eisenhower, Dwight D. (Dwight David), 1890-1969
Howard, O. O. (Oliver Otis), 1830-1909
MacArthur, Douglas, 1880-1964
Patton, George S. (George Smith), 1885-1945
Collection Creator
Anacostia Community Museum
Citation
Evolution of a Community: Oral History of Anacostia, Exhibition Records AV03-040, Anacostia Community Museum Archives, Smithsonian Institution.
Scope and Contents
Historian Louise Daniel Hutchinson leads tour of museum exhibit Evolution of a Community. The tour includes four stops: Douglass Hall (black shopping center), Old Birney School, a black home, and a black church. Prior to the tour, Hutchinson provides a history of Anacostia from its earliest beginnings when the Nacotchtank Indians, part of the Algonquian family, lived on the land now known as Anacostia until General Howard bought land, Barry Farms, to break up into lots to sell to free blacks through the Freedman's Bureau. During the tour, Hutchinson describes employment in the 1920s; segregation in schools, businesses, and theaters; the clearing of Tent/Shack City, where veterans lived, with tear gas and fire under the direction of Douglass MacArthur, George Patton, and Dwight Eisenhower in 1932; home life and items found in a black home in the 1920s; and the importance of the church to the spiritual and social lives of black people.
Tour of exhibit. Part of Evolution of a Community Audiovisual Records. Video recording quality: image drop out and skips in recording. Undated.
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General
Title transcribed from physical asset (Evolution of a Community) and contents of video recording (tour of the exhibit).
Place
Anacostia (Washington, D.C.)
Barry Farms (Washington, D.C.)
Washington (D.C.)
United States
Topic
African Americans
Communities
Neighborhoods
African American neighborhoods
Employment
Business enterprises
African American business enterprises
Schools
Segregation
Churches
African American churches
Housing
Veterans
Nacotchtank Indians
Social history
Creator
Anacostia Neighborhood Museum
Hutchinson, Louise Daniel (19280603-20141012)
Culture
Algonquin Indians
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Evolution of a Community: 1972 Exhibition Records
Evolution of a Community: 1972 Exhibition Records / Series ACMA AV03-040: Evolution of a Community Audiovisual Records
Sponsor
Funding for partial processing of the collection was supported by a grant from the Smithsonian Institution's Collections Care and Preservation Fund (CCPF).
Biographical / Historical
Evolution of a Community, an exhibit at the Anacostia Neighborhood Museum from January 1972 though December 1972, presented the history of Anacostia from post-World War II to the present through photos, text, drawings, video tape programs, and a slide/tape show. Evolution of a Community Part II, also known as Anacostia Today, was on display at the Anacostia Neighborhood Museum from March 1973 though July 1973. The exhibitions developed as a result oral histories collected from Anacostia residents.
Extent
1 Video recording (open reel, 1/2 inch)
Date
circa 1972
Custodial History
Created for the Anacostia Neighborhood Museum. Developed by historian Louise Daniel Hutchinson.
Archival Repository
Anacostia Community Museum Archives
Identifier
ACMA.03-040, Item ACMA AV003047
Type
Archival materials
Video recordings
Collection Rights
Collection items available for reproduction, but the Archives makes no guarantees concerning copyright restrictions. Other intellectual property rights may apply. Archives cost-recovery and use fees may apply when requesting reproductions.
Genre/Form
Video recordings
Unedited footage
Note
003936
Series Restrictions
Use of the materials requires an appointment. Some items are not accessible due to obsolete format and playback machinery restrictions. Please contact the archivist at acmarchives@si.edu.
ACMA.03-040_ref561
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ACMA.03-040
ACMA
Record ID
ebl-1554839407468-1554839407502-0