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    Wonderful Women Wednesday: Portia James

    • Date: August 15, 2018
    • Creator: Lisa Fthenakis
    • Description: Senior Curator and Historian Portia James (1953-2015) pioneered a community-based approach at the Anacostia Community Museum and led the exhibitions, publications and collections programs. She researched African American material culture. #Groundbreaker

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    Fifty Years and Many More to Come!

    • Date: September 12, 2017
    • Creator: Lisa Fthenakis
    • Description: Friday, September 15th, 2017 marks the 50th Anniversary of the opening of the Anacostia Community Museum. Originally named the Anacostia Neighborhood Museum, Secretary Ripley envisioned this as a place to reach out to black residents of Washington, DC who were not seeing themselves in the museums on the Mall. Reporting on the opening of the museum, Secretary Ripley writes that

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    Anacostia Community Museum

    • Date: April 18, 2011
    • Description: The Anacostia Neighborhood Museum opened on September 15, 1967, in the historic Carver Theater in Anacostia, Washington, DC, as a “store-front museum” to reach underserved communities. In 1987, the museum relocated to a new building at 1901 Fort Place SE, Washington, DC. In 2006, it was renamed the Anacostia Community Museum. History of the Anacostia Community MuseumView

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    Link Love: 9/14/2018

    • Date: September 14, 2018
    • Creator: Deborah Shapiro
    • Description: Link Love: a weekly post with links to interesting videos and stories about archival issues, technology and culture, and Washington D.C. and American history.

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  9. Smithsonian African expedition under the direction of Col. Theodore Roosevelt (1909-1910), book 2, numbers 1859-3094

    Smithsonian African expedition under the direction of Col. Theodore Roosevelt (1909-1910), book 2, numbers 1859-3094

    • Date: 1909-1910 19091017 19100314
    • Creator: Mearns, Edgar Alexander, 1856-1916

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  11. Smithsonian African expedition under the direction of Col. Theodore Roosevelt (1909-1910), book 1, numbers 1-1858

    Smithsonian African expedition under the direction of Col. Theodore Roosevelt (1909-1910), book 1, numbers 1-1858

    • Date: 1909-1910 1909 1910
    • Creator: Mearns, Edgar Alexander, 1856-1916

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    SIA Acc. 06-021, National Museum of American History (U.S.) Division of Community Life, Curatorial Records, 1966-1983

    • Date: 1966 1966-1983
    • Creator: National Museum of American History. Division of Community Life
    • Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives

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  15. Jeannine Smith Clark and Judith Wragg Chase , 06/05/1986

    Jeannine Smith Clark and Judith Wragg Chase , 06/05/1986

    • Date: June 5, 1986
    • Creator: Unknown
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    Link Love: 10/13/2017

    • Date: October 13, 2017
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: The Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery has acquired the earliest known photograph of U.S. President John Quincy Adams. [via Art Fix Daily]For the last 3 decades, the Center for the Study of Political Graphics has amassed 100 years of protest art from around the world. [via AIGA]Related, how museum curators are collecting history as it happens, including those at our own

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    Wonderful Women Wednesday: Sharon Reinckens

    • Date: September 4, 2019
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
    • Description: Sharon Reinckens, Deputy Director, Smithsonian Anacostia Community Museum, has served as Acting Director, Senior Designer, and Supervisory Visual Information Specialist at the museum, 1980–present. Reinckens also produced award-winning documentaries about African American artists in Washington D.C for the museum. #Groundbreaker

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  21. What the iconic Windows XP “Bliss” wallpaper photo looks like before and after Commodore 64 conversion.

    Link Love: 5/8/2015

    • Date: May 8, 2015
    • Creator: Mitch Toda
    • Description: Link Love: a weekly blog feature with links to interesting videos and stories regarding archival issues, the Smithsonian, and history.

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    Link Love: 2/11/2011

    • Date: February 11, 2011
    • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
    • Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.

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