This exhibition was developed for circulation by the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service with the assistance of the Anacostia Museum of the Smithsonian Institution and the National Museum of American History. It was adapted from an exhibition organized by the Museum of the Confederacy, Richmond, Virginia. These records document the planning, organizing, execution, and promotion of the exhibition. Materials include correspondence, research files, exhibit script, administrative records, brochures, press coverage, education packets, loan agreements, floor plans, and catalogues.
Related Archival Materials note:
Audiovisual materials related to this exhibition located in Anacostia Community Museum Archives.
Restrictions:
Use of the materials requires an appointment. Please contact the archivist to make an appointment: ACMarchives@si.edu.
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Plantation life -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century -- Exhibitions Search this
A collaborative exhibit between the Anacostia Museum and the Octagon Museum that tells the story of the early years of the District of Columbia, the people, and their communities. The exhibition was held between the two museums from October 15, 1995 to March 3, 1996 and curated by Kym S. Rice. These records document the planning, organizing, execution, and promotion of the exhibition. Materials include correspondence, research files, exhibit scripts, administrative records, brochures, press coverage, artifact lists, education packets, loan agreements, and catalogues.
Restrictions:
Use of the materials requires an appointment. Please contact the archivist to make an appointment: ACMarchives@si.edu.
Southern city, national ambition: the growth of early Washington, D.C., 1800- 1860 exhibition records, Anacostia Community Museum Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Before freedom came : African-American life in the antebellum South : to accompany an exhibition organized by the Museum of the Confederacy / essays by Drew Gilpin Faust ... [et al.] ; edited by Edward D.C. Campbell, Jr., with Kym S. Rice
Architectural exhibitions : a listing of circulating exhibitions and exhibition ideas for museums, galleries, schools, AIA chapters, public exhibition halls / compiled by Jeanne B. Hodges and Christine Miles and revised by Kym S. Rice for the American Institute of Architects
Dolley at Dumbarton : the first lady took shelter from the British in a house with many family ties : an exhibition at Dumbarton House, March 26 through November 2, 1996 / Kym Rice, exhibition curator ; Laura Haines Belman, Morris paper archivist
A woman's war : southern women, civil war, and the Confederate legacy / edited by Edward D.C. Campbell, Jr., and Kym S. Rice ; essays by Joan E. Cashin ... [et al.] ; with a foreword by Suzanne Lebsock
"A share of honour" : Virginia women, 1600-1945 / essay by Suzanne Lebsock ; checklist and catalogue entries by Kym S. Rice for the Virginia Women's Cultural History Project, Richmond, Virginia
