Opening of Anacostia Neighborhood Museum
Object Details
- Author
- Unknown
- 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
- Photograph included in the transcript of John R. Kinard Oral History Interview by Anne M. Rogers, July 30, 1987, in Smithsonian Institution Archives
- 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.
- 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
- September 15, 1967
- Standard number
- 91-518
- Restrictions & Rights
- No restrictions
- Type
- Event
- Photographic print
- Group, candid
- Physical description
- Number of Images: 1; Color: Black and white; Size: 10w x 8h; Type of Image: Group, candid; Event; Medium: Photographic pring
- Place
- Washington (D.C.)
- Smithsonian Archives - History Div
- Topic
- Openings
- Assistant Secretaries
- Museums--Employees
- Smithsonian Institution--Employees
- New Museums
- Museums
- Museum directors
- African Americans
- Exhibitions
- Record ID
- siris_sic_11821
- Metadata Usage (text)
- Usage conditions apply
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