Video Materials
Object Details
- Collection Creator
- Mathis, Nathaniel, 1946- (barber, motivational speaker)
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- Nathaniel Mathis Collection of Barbering and Beauty Culture
- Date
- 1983-2002
- undated
- Archival Repository
- Archives Center, National Museum of American History
- Identifier
- NMAH.AC.0641, Series 8
- Type
- Archival materials
- Collection Citation
- Nathaniel Mathis Collection of Barbering and Beauty Culture, Archives Center, National Museum of American History
- Collection Rights
- Copyright held by the Smithsonian Institution. Collection items available for reproduction, but the Archives Center makes no guarantees concerning copyright restrictions. Reproduction permission from Archives Center: fees for commercial use. The Archives Center does not own rights to the patent, trademark or any related interest in the artifacts.
- Scope and Contents
- Video materials include ½" VHS, DVD and Minidisc formats and document Mathis's motivational speaking, athletic events, and barber training tapes. He made a promotional tape about his life entitled "From Hair to the Throne," which is undated but in DVD format. Much of his motivational speaking took place at high schools and colleges in the Washington, D.C. area. There are also interviews by local television stations. Included are notes about the tapes taken by Fath Davis Ruffins, a curator at the National Museum of American History.
- Collection Restrictions
- The copllection is open for research. Physical Access: Researchers must handle unprotected photographs with gloves. Technical Access: Series 8, Video materials and Series 9, Audiotapes may not be used by researchers unless reference and viewing copies are made available.
- Record ID
- ebl-1503510067717-1503510067745-4
- Metadata Usage
- CC0