Carver Theater, First Home of the ANM

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Object Details

Author

Unknown

Subject

Anacostia Community Museum

Anacostia Neighborhood Museum

Notes

Featured in the Torch, September 1977. A copy can also be found in Record Unit 371 Box 2 Folder September 1977. See also negative #90-13510 for a different view.

Summary

The Carver Theater, before its renovation for the Anacostia Neighborhood Museum, located on Martin Luther King, Jr. Ave in Anacostia. The Museum opened in September 1967 and remained at this location until April 1987, when it moved to its present location, 1901 Fort Place, S.E., Washington, D.C., and renamed Anacostia Museum. The museum is now known as the Anacostia Community Museum.

Contained within

Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 371, Box 2, Folder: September 1977

Contact information

Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu

Date

1967

Standard number

92-1790

Restrictions & Rights

No restrictions

Type

Photographic print

Exterior

Physical description

Color: Black and White; Size: 10w x 8h; Type of Image: Exterior; Medium: Photographic print

Place

Washington (D.C.)

Data Source

Smithsonian Archives - History Div

Topic

African Americans

Buildings--Repair and reconstruction

Carver Theater

Museum buildings

Theaters

New Museums

Museums

Metadata Usage

Usage conditions apply

Record ID

siris_sic_8698