John Kinard provides an introduction to the Anacostia Neighborhood Museum (ANM) and the Sixth Anniversary Seminar. As the keynote speaker, Edmund Barry Gaither provides his thoughts on museums: the concept of the museum and its intentions, particularly the roles of specialty museums; the desirable museum scene; and neighborhood museums and their unique potential. Louise Hutchinson, ANM historian, presents the history of Anacostia with a slideshow. Zora Martin-Felton, ANM education specialist, talks about the importance of community engagement in the evolution of a museum and its exhibits, working with children in the community, working with docents, and the current ANM exhibit about Africa. Gregory Reynolds, former member of ANM's Youth Advisory Council, provides his thoughts on the evolution of ANM and the Youth Advisory Council; ANM staff and board of directors; and the relationship of ANM to the community of Anacostia. Warren M. Robbins, founder of Museum of African Art, discusses the functions of museums; and museums' past preoccupation with objects and current preoccupation with public interest. Theresa Jones talks about the relevancy of ANM to community action agencies, and how ANM has served community action agencies. Finally, David Challinor talks about traditional museums, and Stanley J. Anderson speaks about the community based, or neighborhood, museum. A question and answer session follows each group of speakers.
Seminar. Part of Conference Recordings. AV003071: part 1. AV003056: part 2. AV000792: part 3. AV000788: part 4. AV003054: part 5. Presentations often continue onto the following recording. Dated: 19730921 and 19730922. AV003054: undated.
Local Numbers:
ACMA AV003056
ACMA AV000792
ACMA AV000788
ACMA AV003054
General:
Title transcribed from physical asset.
Collection 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.
Sixth Anniversary Seminar: The Relevance of Anacostia Neighborhood Museum, Record Group AV09-021, Anacostia Community Museum Archives, Smithsonian Institution.
1 Cubic foot (7 films, Reels AC1233-OF0001 and AC1233-OF0002 are composite reels created by the Archives Center, National Museum of American History, the former comprising "Children Summer, Fall, and Winter, 1956-1957" and "Challinor Family Home Movie, 1957" and the latter comprising "Guilford, 57-58" and "Challinor Family Home Movie, 1959", 16mm)
Type:
Collection descriptions
Archival materials
16mm motion picture film
Place:
Massachusetts
White Mountain National Forest (N.H. and Me.)
Mount Snow Ski Resort
Vermont
Murten (Switzerland)
Noroton Heights (Darien, Conn.)
Switzerland
Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)
Yosemite National Park (Calif.)
Iceland
Half Dome (Calif.)
Yosemite Valley (Calif.)
Bermuda Islands
Guilford (Me.)
Maine
Norfolk (Conn.)
Guilford (Conn.)
Date:
1956-1965
Summary:
David Challinor served the Smithsonian Institution in an official capacity for 30 years, eventually becoming the assistant secretary to Sidney Dillon Ripley. Joan R. Challinor became an historian and advocate of library sciences and education. In 1956, however, they were busy with their young family. David only returned to university for graduate school in 1957, in his late 30s. They both went on to have successful careers and active family lives. This collection includes 7 home movie films that document thte Challinor family.
Scope and Contents:
The collection comprises seven silent 16mm color home movies depicting David and Joan Challinor, their four children, and other family or friends. Subject matter includes the family's home in Connecticut as well as family vacations throughout the northeastern United States and Bermuda, Switzerland, and Iceland.
Arrangement:
Collection organized into one series.
Series 1, Motion Picture Film, 1956-1965
Biographical / Historical:
David Challinor and Joan Ridder Challinor were married in 1952 and lived in Houston, Texas where David worked as a cotton broker, farmer, and then a mortgage banker. They had four children: Julia, Mary, Sarah, and David, and six grandchildren. In the late 1950s, they settled in Connecticut, where David pursued graduate studies in forest ecology at Yale University and during which time the couple made home movies.
From 1960-1964, David Challinor served as the deputy director of Yale's Peabody Museum of Natural History under Sidney Dillon Ripley, and in 1965 became the acting director after Ripley became the Smithsonian's secretary. When in 1966 Challinor received his doctorate from Yale University, Ripley recruited him to serve as the Special Assistant for Tropical Biology of the Smithsonian's Office of the Secretary. From 1967-1971 he served as the deputy director and, subsequently, the director of the Office of International Activites. He then served as Assistant Secretary for Science and Research for sixteen years before becoming the Science Advisor to the Secretary prior to his retirement in 1996 when he was named Scientist Emeritus for the National Zoological Park. He died in 2008, leaving a professional legacy of conservationism.
During Challinor's tenure as Assistant Secretary for Science and Research at the Smithsonian, Joan R. Challinor pursued graduate studies in history at American University, receiving her doctorate in 1982. Her work involved serving on numerous committees and organizations, many of which were library and education related, including the Schlesinger Library Advisory Committee and the National Commission on Libraries and Information Science. Through the 1980s and 1990s, she lectured at American University, was a research associate at the National Museum of American History, wrote numerous essays, edited two books, and even produced a documentary film about Thomas Paine. She was also the director of Knight Ridder, Inc., a print media company, from 1989 until 2001. She continues to live and work in the Washington, D.C. area.
Related Materials:
Materials at Other Organizations
The Schlesinger Library of the Radcliff Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University holds the "Papers of Joan R. Challinor, 1848, 1975-2008", which includes her correspondence, meeting and conference materials, articles, speeches, reports, photographs, and audiotapes (Accession #MC 678; T-446).
The Smithsonian Institution Archives holds numerous archival collections, including photographs, papers, files, records, and oral histories related to David Challinor.
Provenance:
The collection was donated by Joan Challinor in 2011.
Restrictions:
Collection is open for research but is stored off-site and special arrangements must be made to work with it. Contact the Archives Center for information at archivescenter@si.edu or 202-633-3270.
Rights:
Collection items available for reproduction, but the Archives Center makes no guarantees concerning copyright restrictions. Privacy rights of filmed individuals may apply. Archives Center cost-recovery and use fees may apply when requesting reproductions.
1 Film reel (silent camera original kodachrome color reversal, 16mm, 449 ft.)
Container:
Reel AC1233-OF0004
Type:
Archival materials
Moving Images
Film reels
Date:
1960-1963
Scope and Contents:
Information written on can for original reel 2: "1960 - 4th of July, August in Bermuda, Sept. 1961 - Mt. Washington with Ernst Pralinger, May 1962 - Noroton, camping in Norfolk, Feb. 1963 - skiing at Mt. Snow with Welch's, Dec. 1963 - skiing with McElhinny's".
Footage includes children and other family or friends engaging in Independence Day celebrations, dressed in costumes and attending a parade in Darien, Connecticut. Included is camping in Norfolk, Connecticut, and skiing in Mt. Snow, Vermont. Footage also includes a family vacation to Bermuda and a visit to Mt. Washington and the Pinkham Notch Camp Centre of Tramping and Skiing in the White Mountain National Forest. David and Joan Challinor are pictured throughout.
Collection Restrictions:
Collection is open for research but is stored off-site and special arrangements must be made to work with it. Contact the Archives Center for information at archivescenter@si.edu or 202-633-3270.
Collection Rights:
Collection items available for reproduction, but the Archives Center makes no guarantees concerning copyright restrictions. Privacy rights of filmed individuals may apply. Archives Center cost-recovery and use fees may apply when requesting reproductions.
Collection Citation:
Challinor Family Home Movie Collection, 1956-1965, Archives Center, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution.
1 Film reel (silent camera original kodachrome color reversal, 16mm, 503 ft.)
Container:
Reel AC1233-OF0005
Type:
Archival materials
Moving Images
Film reels
Date:
1962
Scope and Contents:
Footage features David and Joan Challinor and their children sightseeing in Switzerland. Includes scenery, possibly an art museum, and a clock tower in Murten, Switzerland.
Collection Restrictions:
Collection is open for research but is stored off-site and special arrangements must be made to work with it. Contact the Archives Center for information at archivescenter@si.edu or 202-633-3270.
Collection Rights:
Collection items available for reproduction, but the Archives Center makes no guarantees concerning copyright restrictions. Privacy rights of filmed individuals may apply. Archives Center cost-recovery and use fees may apply when requesting reproductions.
Collection Citation:
Challinor Family Home Movie Collection, 1956-1965, Archives Center, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution.
1 Film reel (silent camera original kodachrome color reversal, 16mm, 303 ft.)
Container:
Reel AC1233-OF0006
Type:
Archival materials
Moving Images
Film reels
Date:
1964
Scope and Contents:
Most of the footage features David and Joan Challinor and their children hiking and camping in the Sierra Nevada mountain range, including a mule baggage train and camp activities like playing cards. Included is footage of Half Dome in Yosemite National Park. The trip may have been with family or friends or for a youth group of some kind, given that multiple family groups pictured.
Collection Restrictions:
Collection is open for research but is stored off-site and special arrangements must be made to work with it. Contact the Archives Center for information at archivescenter@si.edu or 202-633-3270.
Collection Rights:
Collection items available for reproduction, but the Archives Center makes no guarantees concerning copyright restrictions. Privacy rights of filmed individuals may apply. Archives Center cost-recovery and use fees may apply when requesting reproductions.
Collection Citation:
Challinor Family Home Movie Collection, 1956-1965, Archives Center, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution.
1 Film reel (silent camera original kodachrome color reversal, 16mm, 896 ft.)
Container:
Reel AC1233-0007
Type:
Archival materials
Moving Images
Film reels
Date:
1965
Scope and Contents:
Most of the footage features David and Joan Challinor and their children sightseeing in Iceland, including historic sites, Icelandic horses, sunsets, waterfalls, geysers, rapids, farms, sailing, and flying. The family also camps, picnics, goes on a hayride, horseback riding, and swimming. Included is footage of the airstrip when the family arrives on Icelandic Airlines.
Collection Restrictions:
Collection is open for research but is stored off-site and special arrangements must be made to work with it. Contact the Archives Center for information at archivescenter@si.edu or 202-633-3270.
Collection Rights:
Collection items available for reproduction, but the Archives Center makes no guarantees concerning copyright restrictions. Privacy rights of filmed individuals may apply. Archives Center cost-recovery and use fees may apply when requesting reproductions.
Collection Citation:
Challinor Family Home Movie Collection, 1956-1965, Archives Center, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution.
Collection is open for research but is stored off-site and special arrangements must be made to work with it. Contact the Archives Center for information at archivescenter@si.edu or 202-633-3270.
Collection Rights:
Collection items available for reproduction, but the Archives Center makes no guarantees concerning copyright restrictions. Privacy rights of filmed individuals may apply. Archives Center cost-recovery and use fees may apply when requesting reproductions.
Collection Citation:
Challinor Family Home Movie Collection, 1956-1965, Archives Center, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution.
1 Film reel (silent camera original kodachrome color reversal, 16mm, 805 ft.)
Container:
Reel AC1233-OF0001
Type:
Archival materials
Moving Images
Film reels
Date:
1956-1957
Scope and Contents:
Composite reel created by the Archives Center of two original reels of Challinor family home movies, "Children Summer, Fall, and Winter, 1956-1956-57" and [Challinor Family Home Movie, 1957] assembled in chronological order. Information written on can for original reel 5: "Sheffield Summer, 1957, trip to Maine, Sept. 1957, Fall at Guilford".
Most of the footage features children engaged in outdoor activities with other family or friends. In particular, the children are playing in a kiddie pool, but footage includes visits to a beach and playing baseball. Included is a trip to Maine with footage of commercial fishing boats, especially with nets full of fish. Footage also includes the holiday season. David and Joan Challinor are pictured throughout.
Collection Restrictions:
Collection is open for research but is stored off-site and special arrangements must be made to work with it. Contact the Archives Center for information at archivescenter@si.edu or 202-633-3270.
Collection Rights:
Collection items available for reproduction, but the Archives Center makes no guarantees concerning copyright restrictions. Privacy rights of filmed individuals may apply. Archives Center cost-recovery and use fees may apply when requesting reproductions.
Collection Citation:
Challinor Family Home Movie Collection, 1956-1965, Archives Center, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution.
1 Film reel (silent camera original kodachrome color reversal, 16mm, 803 ft.)
Container:
Reel AC1233-OF0002
Type:
Archival materials
Moving Images
Film reels
Date:
1957-1958
Scope and Contents:
Composite reel created by the Archives Center of two original reels of Challinor family home movies, "Guilford, 57-58" and [Challinor Family Home Movie, 1959] assembled in chronological order. Information written on can for original reel 6: "1959, children in Guilford and Jesswig Dr. skiing at Stowe, Bousquet, and Mt. Snow, skating at Davis Pond".
Most of the footage features children engaged in various outdoor activities, especially during the holiday season with snow on the ground but also apparently during the springtime, picnicking, biking, and helping with laundry. David and Joan Challinor are pictured throughout, with other family or friends. Included are skiing trips to Vermont and Massachusetts and ice skating at Davis Pond in Guilford, Maine. Footage also includes The Toll House Inn.
Collection Restrictions:
Collection is open for research but is stored off-site and special arrangements must be made to work with it. Contact the Archives Center for information at archivescenter@si.edu or 202-633-3270.
Collection Rights:
Collection items available for reproduction, but the Archives Center makes no guarantees concerning copyright restrictions. Privacy rights of filmed individuals may apply. Archives Center cost-recovery and use fees may apply when requesting reproductions.
Collection Citation:
Challinor Family Home Movie Collection, 1956-1965, Archives Center, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution.
1 Film reel (silent color reversal, print, 16mm, 340 ft.)
Container:
Reel AC1233-OF0003
Type:
Archival materials
Moving Images
Film reels
Date:
circa 1950-1960
Scope and Contents:
Most of the footage features children engaged in outdoor activities, including what might have been a back yard play with children dressed in costumes. David and Joan Challinor are pictured throughout, with other family or friends.
Collection Restrictions:
Collection is open for research but is stored off-site and special arrangements must be made to work with it. Contact the Archives Center for information at archivescenter@si.edu or 202-633-3270.
Collection Rights:
Collection items available for reproduction, but the Archives Center makes no guarantees concerning copyright restrictions. Privacy rights of filmed individuals may apply. Archives Center cost-recovery and use fees may apply when requesting reproductions.
Collection Citation:
Challinor Family Home Movie Collection, 1956-1965, Archives Center, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution.
Collins, Henry B. (Henry Bascom), 1899-1987 Search this
Extent:
2 Items (ca. inch ca. 2 inch)
90 Photographs
2 Volumes
Type:
Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Photographs
Volumes
Date:
1980;1987
Scope and Contents:
The material relates to two events: a dinner in honor of Collins, December 5, 1980, and a memorial service, November 5, 1987. Included are announcements, a guest book for the memorial, xerox copies of photographs of and writings by Collins, messages from many prominent anthropologists and archeologists, and an album of photographs and other memorabilia presented to Collins at the dinner in 1980. Particularly lengthy messages are from Moreau Browne Congleton Chambers, Frederica de Laguna, William G. Haag, Clifford Evans and Betty Jane Meggers, James Bennett Griffin, Stephen Williams, Helge Larsen, James B. Griffin, and William S. Laughlin. The photographs show Henry Bascom Collins (some by Sabra K. McCracken), Douglas H. Ubelaker, James B. Griffin, David Challinor, Richard Fiske, Regina Flannery Herzfeld, Waldo R. Wedel, John C. Ewers, Clifford Evans, Stephen Williams, Margaret Lantis, William W. Fitzhugh, Helge Larsen. Also included are photographs of St. Lawrence Island, 1959 taken by Robert E. Ackerman.
Photographs documenting people and gifts at Saul Riesenberg's retirement party in the Department of Anthropology chairman's office in 1979. Pictured attendees, mostly Department of Anthropology staff, include William Fitzhugh, David Challinor, Steve Porter, Gus Van Beek, Betty Meggers, Clifford Evans, Judith Luskey, Riesenberg and his wife.
Biographical/Historical note:
Saul Herbert Riesenberg took part in the first American anthropological studies in Micronesia and was the first curator of Pacific ethnology at the Smithsonian in 1957. He later served as department chairman and retired as senior ethnologist.
Local Call Number(s):
NAA Photo Lot 80-17
Location of Other Archival Materials:
The National Anthropological Archives holds Saul Herbert Riesenberg's papers.
Correspondence from Riesenberg can be found in the National Anthropological Archives in Saul Herbert Riesenberg Correspondence 1962-1967 and Correspondence, 1967-1972, Records of the Department of Anthropology.
Additional photographs of Riesenberg can be found in the National Anthropological Archives in the BAE historical negatives.
Restrictions:
The collection is open for research.
Access to the collection requires an appointment.
Rights:
Contact the repository for terms of use.
Genre/Form:
Photographs
Citation:
Photo lot 80-17, Photographs of Saul Riesenberg's retirement party, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
The ceremony included tributes to Evans as a man and recounted his contributions to the Smithsonian, to archeology, and to Latin American archeology. Speakers included Carolyn Rose, Gus Van Beek, Donald Duckworth, Stephen Potter, David Challinor, Don D. Fowler, and others.