Esther Nighbert discusses her involvement with the Anacostia Community Museum from its opening in 1967 through 1972. She describes her role and her work, including serving as a secretary for John Kinard, assisting him with editing and re-writing various publications, and the various ways she provided support to the museum. She discusses the museum's impact on the neighborhood, its relationship with the Smithsonian, and its influence nationally and internationally. She recollects various exhibits, events, youth programs, and the many individuals involved in managing, developing, and advising the museum.
The interview was conducted by Gail S. Lowe on September 1, 1992. Periodically, there is some minor background noise. The interviewee can be heard clearly throughout the recording.
Provenance:
Conducted as part of the ACM 25th Anniversary Oral History Project, which includes approximately 100 interviews of residents and influential people of the Anacostia area of Washington, DC.
Restrictions:
Use of the materials requires an appointment. Please contact the archivist to make an appointment: ACMarchives@si.edu.
Purported by its title as "Remarks prepared by Mr. Saul Steinberg for a luncheon given in his honor at the Smithsonian Institution on February 27, 1967," the document is, on close inspection, a stream of nonsense in the form of a grand proclamation, handwritten in a fanciful, antiquated script on Smithsonian letterhead.
Biographical / Historical:
Illustrator, cartoonist, New York, N.Y.; b. 1914; d. 1999.
Provenance:
Charles Blitzer, then Assistant Secretary for Art and History, hosted the luncheon for Steinberg that the artist's "remarks" were given. Blitzer framed the document and it hung in his office in the Smithsonian Castle for many years. It was transferred 2002 by the Architectural History and Historic Preservation, Smithsonian Institution Castle Collection via Richard Stamm, Keeper of the Castle Collection.
Restrictions:
Use of original papers requires an appointment and is limited to the Archives' Washington, D.C., Research Center.
The preliminaries (6:39) --The Democratic convention (4:06) --The Democratic platform (4:23) --Nomination and vote for presidential candidate (5:52) - - Nomination and vote for vice presidential candidate (2 :42) --Stevenson's acceptance speech (3:08) --The Republican platform (3:43) --Republican platform & nomination for presidential candidate (5:02) --Nomination & vote for vice presidential candidate (5: 48) --The campaigns (10:38) --The elections (3:19).
Track Information:
101 null / Adlai E. (Adlai Ewing) Stevenson, Dwight D. (Dwight David) Eisenhower, Richard M. (Richard Milhous) Nixon.
101 null / W. Averell (William Averell) Harriman, Estes Kefauver, Harold Edward Stassen.
101 null / Arthur B. (Arthur Bernard) Langlie, Frank Goad Clement, Happy Chandler.
101 null / Herbert Hoover, Joseph W. (Joseph William) Martin, Sam Rayburn.
101 null / Eleanor Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman, Joe Smith.
101 null / John F. (John Fitzgerald) Kennedy.
Publication, Distribution, Etc. (Imprint):
New Haven, CT Yale University 1961
Restrictions:
Restrictions on access. No duplication allowed listening and viewing for research purposes only.
Collection Rights:
Permission to publish materials from the collection must be requested from the Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections. Please visit our website to learn more about submitting a request. The Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections make no guarantees concerning copyright or other intellectual property restrictions. Other usage conditions may apply; please see the Smithsonian's Terms of Use for more information.
The preliminaries --The Democratic convention --The Democratic platform --Nomination & vote for presidential candidate --Nomination & vote for vice-presidential candidate --Stevenson's acceptance speech --The Republican convention --The Republican platform and nomination & vote for presidential candidate --Nomination & vote for vice-presidential candidate --The campaigns -- The election.
Local Numbers:
FW-ASCH-7RR-1242
General:
Folkways 5505
CDR copy--edited by Howard Lamar and Charles Blitzer.
Restrictions:
Restrictions on access. No duplication allowed listening and viewing for research purposes only.
Collection Rights:
Permission to publish materials from the collection must be requested from the Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections. Please visit our website to learn more about submitting a request. The Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections make no guarantees concerning copyright or other intellectual property restrictions. Other usage conditions may apply; please see the Smithsonian's Terms of Use for more information.
File consists of memorandum related to Old Ways in the New World.
Collection Restrictions:
Access to the Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections is by appointment only. Visit our website for more information on scheduling a visit or making a digitization request. Researchers interested in accessing born-digital records or audiovisual recordings in this collection must use access copies.
Collection Rights:
Permission to publish materials from the collection must be requested from the Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections. Please visit our website to learn more about submitting a request. The Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections make no guarantees concerning copyright or other intellectual property restrictions. Other usage conditions may apply; please see the Smithsonian's Terms of Use for more information.
Collection Citation:
Ralph Rinzler papers and audio recordings, Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections, Smithsonian Institution.
Remarks prepared by Mr. Saul Steinberg for a luncheon given in his honor at the Smithsonian Institution on February 27, 1967, 1967 Feb. 27. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
