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Negative number: 92-1705 The Anacostia Historical Society in front of the Carver Theater which served as the first home for the Anacostia Neighborhood Museum, 1967.

Negative number: 92-1790 The Anacostia Neighborhood Museum, in the Carver Theater, located at Martin Luther King, Jr. Avenue in Anacostia, before its renovation. The Museum opened in September 1967 and remained at this location until April, 1987, when it moved to its present location, 1901 Fort Pierce Place, S.E.

Negative number: 91-517 Two boys preparing for the opening of the Anacostia Neighborhood Museum located in the renovated Carver Theater on Martin Luther King, Jr. Avenue in Anacostia, 1967.

Negative number: 91-521 Secretary S. Dillon Ripley (1964-1984) and children with "Uncle Beazley," the dinosaur (Triceratops) used in the film "The Enormous Egg," at the opening of the Anacostia Neighborhood Museum on 15 September 1967. Uncle Beazley was placed in the parking lot adjoining the Carver Theater. He was then moved to the Mall in front of the National Museum of Natural History and later to the National Zoological Park.

Negative number: 91-520 Fighter Plane on exhibit at the opening of the Anacostia Neighborhood Museum. The museum which opened on 15 September 1967 began as an experimental community museum.

Negative number: 92-3568 Children painting and staging a play at the Anacostia Neighborhood Museum.

Negative number: 73-63-33A Anacostia Neighborhood Museum exhibit for American Association for the Advancement of Science, December 1972.

Negative number: 92-1788 Anacostia Exhibits Center, Anacostia Neighborhood Museum, 1901 Fort Place, Southeast Washington, c. 1975-1976.

Negative number: 95-1212 Ceremonial Anacostia Museum Groundbreaking in May 1985. (l-r): historian Louise Hutchinson, Robert Stanton (National Park Service), John Blake (chair of Anacostia Museum board), Ann King (former president of Fort Stanton Citizens Association), James Mayo (Anacostia Museum exhibit supervisor), Addie Cook (FSCA president), Anacostia Museum Director John Kinard, and Secretary Robert McCormick Adams. Photo by Rhawn Anderson.

Negative number: 89-4080-2A The Anacostia Museum's new building at 1901 Fort Place, S.E., Washington, D.C., opened 17 May 1987 next to its laboratory-research center built in 1975. The new building is approximately 10 blocks from the Museum's former location and was developed by the architectural firm of Keyes Condon Florance.

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