101 Making Our Own Songs / Ulali (Musical group), Geraldine Barney, Soni Moreno-Primeau.
102 Assiniboine and Ojibwa Songs / Georgia Wettlin-Larsen. Hand drums,Rattle (Musical instrument).
Local Numbers:
FP-1995-CT-0512
Date/Time and Place of an Event Note:
Recorded in: Washington (D.C.), United States, July 4, 1995.
Restrictions:
Restrictions on access. Some duplication is allowed. Use of materials needs permission of the Smithsonian Institution.
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.
An exhibition exploring the varied stigmas and stereotypes applied to New York City's Housing Authority sites and the residents (past and present) who live in them. Journalist Rico Washington and photographer Shino Yanagawa collaborated on this exhibit which offers an in-depth look at how New York City public housing has impacted society-at-large by producing some of the world's most influential and dynamic artists, entrepreneurs, athletes, musicians, politicians, and thinkers. It was exhibited at the World Festival of Black Arts and Culture in Dakar, Senegal, 2010, at the Gordon Parks Gallery at the College of New Rochelle (NY), 2013, and the Brooklyn Historical Society from 2014-2015.
Scope and Contents:
An exhibition exploring the varied stigmas and stereotypes applied to New York City's Housing Authority sites and the residents (past and present) who live in them. Journalist Rico Washington and photographer Shino Yanagawa collaborated on this exhibit which offers an in-depth look at how New York City public housing has impacted society-at-large by producing some of the world's most influential and dynamic artists, entrepreneurs, athletes, musicians, politicians, and thinkers. It was exhibited at the World Festival of Black Arts and Culture in Dakar, Senegal, 2010, at the Gordon Parks Gallery at the College of New Rochelle (NY), 2013, and the Brooklyn Historical Society from 2014-2015.
Materials date from 2009-2011 and include photographic prints, over fifty audio interviews, digital images, a digital video commercial for the exhibition, a photocopy of a letter from Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court Honorable Sonia Sotomayor to the curators pertaining to the exhibition. Brochures, postcards, and copies of newspaper articles and journals featuring the exhibition are also present.
Biographical / Historical:
Washington, D.C. native Rico Washington holds a BA from Fordham University's African & African-American Studies program. As a journalist who has interviewed celebrities such as Erykah Badu, his work has appeared in New York Moves, Upscale, Wax Poetics, Ebony.com, and Okayplayer.com. He has also served as music editor for Brooklynbased Free Magazine and staff writer/columnist at XLR8R magazine. Rico is also a teaching artist with the non-profit arts organization Arts Connection. He lives and works in New York City.
Shino Yanagawa holds a BA in Economics from Japan's Hoesi University, A Tokyo native she has been a professional photographer for more than a decade. Yanagawa has photographed an array of musicians including Q-Tip. In addition to being a regular contributor to Japanese newspapers Nikkei and Sankei, her works have also appeared in publications such as GQ-Japan, Harper's Bazaar-Japan, and Blue Note-Japan. She lives and works in New York City.
Provenance:
Donated by Rico Washington and Shino Yanagawa in 2017.
Restrictions:
Use of the materials requires an appointment. Please contact the archivist to make an appointment: ACMarchives@si.edu.
Rights:
Collection items available for reproduction, but the Archives makes no guarantees concerning copyright restrictions. Other intellectual property rights may apply. Archives cost-recovery and use fees may apply when requesting reproductions.
Includes interviews conducted by Rico Washington with former and current residents of public housing in New York City. The series consist of audio digital files and transcripts which are arranged alphabetically by interviewee.
Collection Restrictions:
Use of the materials requires an appointment. Please contact the archivist to make an appointment: ACMarchives@si.edu.
Collection Rights:
Collection items available for reproduction, but the Archives makes no guarantees concerning copyright restrictions. Other intellectual property rights may apply. Archives cost-recovery and use fees may apply when requesting reproductions.
Collection Citation:
We the People Project Records, Anacostia Community Museum Archives, Smithsonian Institution, gift of Rico Washington and Shino Yanagawa.
Sheila Lewandowski is the executive director of the Chocolate Factory, an organization that helps people in the perforance arts. Lewandowski grew up in an Staten Islands housing project. She discusses her life in the projects, the positive aspects and the negative experiences. She explains how the architecture of the projects affects the residents.
Collection Restrictions:
Use of the materials requires an appointment. Please contact the archivist to make an appointment: ACMarchives@si.edu.
Collection Rights:
Collection items available for reproduction, but the Archives makes no guarantees concerning copyright restrictions. Other intellectual property rights may apply. Archives cost-recovery and use fees may apply when requesting reproductions.
Midland Park, Staten Island, New York N.Y. -- photographs
Staten Island, New York N.Y. -- photographs -- 1910-1920
Date:
1919.
Scope and Contents:
Panoramic silver gelatin print, showing over one hundred men, women, and children posed in rows. Many of the men wear straw hats, and a baseball bat lies in the foreground.
Biographical / Historical:
No information about company available at this time, except for what may be determined from the photograph. The donor indicated that her great-grandfather is shown in the photograph. The "employees' outing" or picnic was held at Midland Park, Staten Island, New York, August 9, 1919.
Provenance:
Collection donated by Donna Bouchery, 1986, March 4.
Restrictions:
Collection is open for research.
Rights:
Collection items available for reproduction, but the Archives Center makes no guarantees concerning copyright restrictions. Other intellectual property rights may apply. Archives Center cost-recovery and use fees may apply when requesting reproductions.
Recorded in: Washington (D.C.), United States, June 30, 1995.
Restrictions:
Restrictions on access. Some duplication is allowed. Use of materials needs permission of the Smithsonian Institution.
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.
102 Powwow Songs / Anita Anquoe George, Bernadine Stacey, Mary Ann Anquoe.
Local Numbers:
FP-1995-CT-0498
Date/Time and Place of an Event Note:
Recorded in: Washington (D.C.), United States, June 30, 1995.
Restrictions:
Restrictions on access. Some duplication is allowed. Use of materials needs permission of the Smithsonian Institution.
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.
101 Ceremonial and Social Songs: Kiowa, Northern Plains Drum, Wasco / Kiowa Singers, Red Eagle Singers, Mary Ann Meanus. Hand drums,Drum.
102 Traditions Transformed: Ulali / Ulali (Musical group), Jennifer Kreisberg, Soni Moreno-Primeau. Hand drums,Rattle (Musical instrument).
Local Numbers:
FP-1995-CT-0532
Date/Time and Place of an Event Note:
Recorded in: Washington (D.C.), United States, July 3, 1995.
Restrictions:
Restrictions on access. Some duplication is allowed. Use of materials needs permission of the Smithsonian Institution.
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.
101 Songs from the Woodlands and Plains: Iroquois, Ojibwa, Assiboine, Northern Plains Drum / Red Eagle Singers, Six Nations Women Singers, Georgia Wettlin-Larsen. Hand drums,Drum,Rattle (Musical instrument),Water-drum.
102 Traditions Transformed: Ulali / Ulali (Musical group), Pura Fé, Soni Moreno-Primeau. Hand drums,Rattle (Musical instrument).
Local Numbers:
FP-1995-CT-0537
Date/Time and Place of an Event Note:
Recorded in: Washington (D.C.), United States, July 4, 1995.
Restrictions:
Restrictions on access. Some duplication is allowed. Use of materials needs permission of the Smithsonian Institution.
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.
Caption: "A Procter & Gamble Product...". Illustration of Staten Island factory.
Published 5 May 1926. Brittle.
Local Numbers:
245472
Ivorydata4 1329
0307910134 (Scan No.)
Restrictions:
Unrestricted research use on site by appointment. Reproduction restrictions due to copyright.
Collection Rights:
Collection items available for reproduction, but the Archives Center makes no guarantees concerning copyright restrictions. Other intellectual property rights may apply. Archives Center cost-recovery and use fees may apply when requesting reproductions.
Haul the bowline --Blow, boys, blow --The drunken sailor -- Reuben Ranzo --A-roving ; or, The Amsterdam maid --Heave away --The sailor's alphabet --Paddy Doyle --Paddy, get back --The dead horse ; or, Poor old man Johnny Boker.
Track Information:
101 Haul the Bowline / Richard Maitland.
102 Blow, Boys, Blow / Noble B. Brown.
103 The Drunken Sailor / Richard Maitland.
104 Reuben Ranzo / Noble B. Brown.
105 A-Roving (The Amsterdam Maid) / Richard Maitland.
106 Heave Away / Richard Maitland.
201 The Sailor's Alphabet / Leighton Robinson.
202 Paddy Doyle / Richard Maitland.
203 Paddy, Get Back / Richard Maitland.
204 Dead Horse, The (Poor Old Man) / Leighton Robinson.
205 Johnny Boker / Leighton Robinson.
Local Numbers:
FP-RINZ-LP-0950
Library of Congress.AAFS L26
Publication, Distribution, Etc. (Imprint):
Washington, D.C. Library of Congress 1952
Date/Time and Place of an Event Note:
Recorded in: Mill Valley (Calif.), California, Woodman (Wis.), Wisconsin, Staten Island (New York, N.Y.), United States, New York.
General:
On container: AAFS L26. "From the Archive of American Folk Song." Program notes and texts (17 p.) inserted and on container. Performer(s): Sea shanties and songs; sung by Richard Maitland, Noble B. Brown, and Capt. Leighton Robinson. Production notes: Recorded at various places, 1939-1951.
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.
104 So Handy, Me Boys, So Handy / Richard Maitland.
105 A Long Time Ago / Richard Maitland.
201 Rio Grande / Alex Barr, Arthur Gilchrist Brodeur, Leighton Robinson.
202 Whiskey Johnny / Alex Barr, Arthur Gilchrist Brodeur, Leighton Robinson.
203 Roll the Cotton Down / Alex Barr, Arthur Gilchrist Brodeur, Leighton Robinson.
204 Rolling Home / Alex Barr, Arthur Gilchrist Brodeur, Leighton Robinson.
205 Homeward Bound / Alex Barr, Arthur Gilchrist Brodeur, Leighton Robinson.
Local Numbers:
FP-RINZ-LP-0970
Library of Congress.AAFS L27
Publication, Distribution, Etc. (Imprint):
Washington, D.C. Library of Congress
Date/Time and Place of an Event Note:
Recorded in: Belvedere (Calif.), California, Staten Island (New York, N.Y.), New York, Woodman (Wis.), Wisconsin, Washington (D.C.), United States.
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.
Photograph made from a framed print depicting American Indians at groundbreaking ceremonies for Rodman Wanamaker's proposed National Memorial to the First Americans on Staten Island, on February 22, 1913. Included in the image are Cheyenne chief Wooden Leg, Cheyenne chief Two Moons, Rodman Wanamaker, Crow chief Plenty Coups, Crow chief Medicine Crow, Crow Indian White Man Runs Him, and Oglala Sioux chief Jack Red Cloud. The original photograph may have been made by the Bain News Service.
Biographical/Historical note:
In 1913, department store owner Rodman Wanamaker (1863-1928) sponsored a project that brought American Indians to New York for the groundbreaking of a proposed National Memorial to the First Americans on Staten Island; however, the monument was never built. Wanamaker also sponsored three photographic expeditions between 1908 and 1913, intending to document the "vanishing race" of American Indians.
Local Call Number(s):
NAA Photo Lot R82-55
Location of Other Archival Materials:
Photographs collected by Wanamaker can be found in the National Anthropological Archives in Photo Lot 64.
Additional photographs of this event can be found in the Library of Congress in the George Grantham Bain Collection.
Restrictions:
The collection is open for research.
Access to the collection requires an appointment.
Rights:
This copy collection has been obtained for reference purposes only. Contact the repository for terms of use and access.
Genre/Form:
Photographs
Citation:
Photo lot R82-55, Copy photograph of Memorial to First Americans groundbreaking, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Once upon an island : an activity-based guide to teaching local history / Joyce Crawford, editor and project director, Jo Ann Secor, program director ; [illustrations by Jay Brady and Robert Bunkin]
