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

Physical description: Number of Images: 1; Color: Black and white; Size: 10w x 8h; Type of Image: Group, candid; Event; Medium: Photographic pring

Smithsonian Archives - History Div

Topic: Openings; Assistant Secretaries; Museums--Employees; Smithsonian Institution--Employees; New Museums; Museums; Museum directors; African Americans; Exhibitions