Opening of Anacostia Neighborhood Museum

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Object Details

Author

Unknown

Subject

Kinard, John 1936-1989

Blitzer, Charles

Washington, Walter

Anacostia Museum and Center for African American History and Culture

Anacostia Neighborhood Museum

Anacostia Community Museum

Assistant Secretary of the Smithsonian

Notes

Photograph included in the transcript of John R. Kinard Oral History Interview by Anne M. Rogers, July 30, 1987, in Smithsonian Institution Archives

Summary

Attending the opening of the Anacostia Neighborhood Museum (now known as Anacostia Community Museum), are (left to right): Director John R. Kinard; Mayor of Washington, D.C. Walter Washington; an unidentified man; and Assistant Secretary Charles Blitzer. They stand in front of an exhibit in the new museum.

Contained within

Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 9538, John R. Kinard Oral History Interviews

Contact information

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

Date

September 15, 1967

Standard number

91-518

Restrictions & Rights

No restrictions

Type

Event

Photographic print

Group, candid

Physical description

Number of Images: 1; Color: Black and white; Size: 10w x 8h; Type of Image: Group, candid; Event; Medium: Photographic pring

Place

Washington (D.C.)

Data Source

Smithsonian Archives - History Div

Topic

Openings

Assistant Secretaries

Museums--Employees

Smithsonian Institution--Employees

New Museums

Museums

Museum directors

African Americans

Exhibitions

Metadata Usage

Usage conditions apply

Record ID

siris_sic_11821