Object Details
- Author
- Unknown
- Subject
- Anacostia Community Museum
- Anacostia Neighborhood Museum
- Category
- Historic Images of the Smithsonian
- Featured in the Torch, September 1977. A copy can also be found in Record Unit 371 Box 2 Folder September 1977. See also negative #90-13510 for a different view.
- Summary
- The Carver Theater, before its renovation for the Anacostia Neighborhood Museum, located on Martin Luther King, Jr. Ave in Anacostia. The Museum opened 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., and renamed Anacostia Museum. The museum is now known as the Anacostia Community Museum.
- Contained within
- Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 371, Box 2, Folder: September 1977
- Contact information
- Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu
- 1967
- Standard number
- 92-1790
- 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
- Buildings--Repair and reconstruction
- Carver Theater
- Museum buildings
- Theaters
- New Museums
- Museums
- Record ID
- siris_sic_8698
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