Object Details
- Collection Collector
- Whitehead, Henry Preston, 1917-2002
- See more items in
- Henry P. Whitehead collection
- Henry P. Whitehead collection / Series 1: Henry P. Whitehead Papers
- Extent
- 0.01 Linear feet (Box 63-92)
- Archival Repository
- Anacostia Community Museum Archives
- Identifier
- ACMA.06-042, Subseries 1.6
- Type
- Archival materials
- Collection Citation
- Henry P. Whitehead collection, Anacostia Community Museum Archives, Smithsonian Institution, gift of Michael A. Watkins.
- Collection Rights
- The Henry P. Whitehead collection is the physical property of the Anacostia Community Museum. Literary and copyright belong to the author/creator or their legal heirs and assigns. Rights to work produced during the normal course of Museum business resides with the Anacostia Community Museum. For further information, and to obtain permission to publish or reproduce, contact the Museum Archives.
- Scope and Contents
- Included in this subseries are scrapbooks compiled by Whitehead of mostly photocopied clippings documenting Washington DC history, African American theater history, and general African American history. Five scrapbooks were compiled by an unknown source and were previously housed in the New York Public Library collection. Two scrapbooks are about general theater history one about Frances Starr and one about Margaret Anglin. There is also one scrapbook compiled by and about Mae Hall. Also included are a large amount of research notes and notebooks along with general miscellaneous notes.
- Collection Restrictions
- Use of the materials requires an appointment. Please contact the archivist to make an appointment: ACMarchives@si.edu.
- Record ID
- ebl-1503511500367-1503511500460-4
