Opening of Anacostia Neighborhood Museum

ID: 91-518

Creator: Unknown

Form/Genre: Event

Date: September 15, 1967

Citation: Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 9538, John R. Kinard Oral History Interviews

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Summary

Attending the opening of the Anacostia Neighborhood Museum (now known as Anacostia Community Museum), are (left to right): Director John R. Kinard; Mayor of Washington, D.C. Walter Washington; an unidentified man; and Assistant Secretary Charles Blitzer. They stand in front of an exhibit in the new museum.

Subject

  • Kinard, John 1936-1989
  • Blitzer, Charles
  • Washington, Walter
  • Anacostia Museum and Center for African American History and Culture
  • Anacostia Neighborhood Museum
  • Anacostia Community Museum
  • Assistant Secretary of the Smithsonian

Category

Historic Images of the Smithsonian

Notes

Photograph included in the transcript of John R. Kinard Oral History Interview by Anne M. Rogers, July 30, 1987, in Smithsonian Institution Archives

Contained within

Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 9538, John R. Kinard Oral History Interviews

Contact information

Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, SW, Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu

Date

September 15, 1967

Restrictions & Rights

No restrictions

Topic

  • Assistant Secretaries
  • Openings
  • Personnel management
  • Smithsonian Institution
  • Employees
  • New Museums
  • Exhibitions
  • Museums
  • Museums--Employees
  • Smithsonian Institution--Employees
  • Museum directors
  • African Americans

Place

Washington (D.C.)

Form/Genre

  • Event
  • Photographic print
  • Group, candid

ID Number

91-518

Physical description

Number of Images: 1; Color: Black and white; Size: 10w x 8h; Type of Image: Group, candid; Event; Medium: Photographic pring

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