Carver Theater, First Home of the Anacostia Museum
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Object Details
- Author
- Unknown
- Subject
- Anacostia Neighborhood Museum
- Anacostia Community Museum
- Category
- Historic Images of the Smithsonian
- See also negative #92-1790 for a different view.
- Summary
- Marquee of the former Carver Theater advertising the Smithsonian Institution's Anacostia Neighborhood Museum. The Museum opened in the converted theater in September 1967 and remained at this location until April 1987, when it moved to its present location, 1901 Fort Place, S.E., Washington, D.C. The museum is now known as the Anacostia Community Museum.
- Contained within
- Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95, Box 34, Folder: 5A and Record Unit 9538, Box 1, John R. Kinard Oral History Interviews
- Contact information
- Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu
- 1967
- Standard number
- 90-13510
- Restrictions & Rights
- No restrictions
- Type
- Photographic print
- Exterior
- Physical description
- Color: Black and White; Size: 10w x 8h; Type of Image: Exterior; Medium: Photographic print
- Place
- Washington (D.C.)
- Smithsonian Archives - History Div
- Topic
- African Americans
- Carver Theater
- Museum buildings
- Theaters
- Museums
- New Museums
- Record ID
- siris_sic_10751
- Metadata Usage (text)
- Usage conditions apply
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