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Author:
Anderson, Rhawn  Search this
Subject:
Adams, Robert McCormick 1926-2018  Search this
Blake, John  Search this
Hutchinson, Louise Daniel  Search this
Kinard, John 1936-1989  Search this
King, Ann  Search this
Mayo, James (Jim)  Search this
Stanton, Robert  Search this
Cook, Addie  Search this
Anacostia Community Museum  Search this
Anacostia Neighborhood Museum  Search this
Physical description:
Color: Black and White; Size: 10w x 8h; Type of Image: Event; Group; Medium: Photographic print
Type:
Photographic print
Event
Group
Date:
1985
Category:
Historic Images of the Smithsonian
Notes:
Featured in the Torch, July 1985
Summary:
Ceremonial groundbreaking at 1901 Fort Place, S.E., Washington, D.C., in May 1985, for the Anacostia Neighborhood Museum (AM), renamed the Anacostia Museum in 1987. In 1995 the Museum was renamed Anacostia Museum and Center for African American History and Culture. After the Smithsonian launched its new National Museum of African American History and Culture, the Museum was renamed Anacostia Community Museum in 2006. Left to right: Museum Historian Louise Hutchinson (AM), Robert Stanton (National Park Service), John Blake (chair of AM board), Ann King (former president of Fort Stanton Citizens Association[FSCA]), James Mayo (ANM exhibit supervisor), Addie Cook (FSCA president), AM Director John Kinard and Secretary Robert McCormick Adams. The museum opened in the Carver Theater building in 1967.
Contained within:
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 371, Box 4, Folder: July 1985
Contact information:
Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu
Topic:
Secretaries  Search this
African Americans  Search this
Groundbreaking  Search this
Museum buildings  Search this
New Museums  Search this
Secretariats  Search this
Smithsonian Institution--Employees  Search this
Museum directors  Search this
Standard number:
95-1212
Restrictions & Rights:
No restrictions
Data Source:
Smithsonian Archives - History Div
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sic_8930