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Title: Hannah Brenchley Interview, September 12, 2021
Date: September 12, 2021
Creator: Kerr, Dan; Brenchley, Hannah; Shenk, Katy; Brenchley, Hannah
Subject: adams morgan day; neighborhood festival; place; gentrification; 1960s; weather underground; activism; cathy wilkerson
Country: United States
Collection: Adams Morgan Day 2021
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/humanitiestruck:2964
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Title: Interview with Osha, September 12, 2021
Date: September 12, 2021
Creator: Osha; Kerr, Dan; Kerr, Dan; Osha
Subject: adams morgan day; neighborhood festival; place; gentrification; community; change; restaurants; preservation; COVID-19
Country: United States
Collection: Adams Morgan Day 2021
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/humanitiestruck:2996
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Title: Interview with Adrian Ferguson, September 15, 2021
Date: September 15, 2021
Creator: Kerr, Dan; Ferguson, Adrian; Ferguson, Adrian; Kerr, Dan
Subject: celebrate petworth; neighborhood festival; memory; community; celebration; art; music; jazz, concerts; art of noize
Country: United States
Collection: 2021 "Celebrate Petworth" Festival
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/humanitiestruck:3013
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Title: Interview with Chris Riley and Bill Bilante, September 15, 2021
Date: September 15, 2021
Creator: Bilante, Bill; Riley, Chris; Riley, Chris; Bilante, Bill; Kerr, Dan; Kerr, Dan
Subject: celebrate petworth; neighborhood festival; community; celebration; petworth cigars; local business; block party; history
Country: United States
Collection: 2021 "Celebrate Petworth" Festival
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/humanitiestruck:3017
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Title: Interview with David Mandel Anthony, September 25, 2021
Date: September 25, 2021
Creator: Kerr, Dan; Mandel Anthony, David; Mandel Anthony, David; Kerr, Dan
Subject: celebrate petworth; neighborhood festival; place; memory; celebration; change; houses; tree; neighbors
Country: United States
Collection: 2021 "Celebrate Petworth" Festival
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/humanitiestruck:3020
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Title: Interview with Drew Schneider, September 15, 2021
Date: September 15, 2021
Creator: Kerr, Dan; Schneider, Drew; Kerr, Dan; Schneider, Drew
Subject: celebrate petworth; neighborhood festival; community; celebration; Caribbean day festival; block parties; petworth porch fest
Country: United States
Collection: 2021 "Celebrate Petworth" Festival
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/humanitiestruck:3023
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Title: Interview with Juliana Martinez, September 23, 2021
Date: September 23, 2021
Creator: Martinez, Juliana; Kerr, Dan; Martinez, Juliana; Kerr, Dan
Subject: celebrate petworth; neighborhood festival; place; celebration; noise; parties; fourth of July; dogs; families
Country: United States
Collection: 2021 "Celebrate Petworth" Festival
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/humanitiestruck:3027
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Title: Interview with Matt Krim, September 15, 2021
Date: September 15, 2021
Creator: Kerr, Dan; Krim, Matt; Kerr, Dan; Krim, Matt
Subject: celebrate petworth; neighborhood festival; celebration; restaurants; barbecue; fourth of July; fireworks; block parties
Country: United States
Collection: 2021 "Celebrate Petworth" Festival
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/humanitiestruck:3040
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Title: Interview with Julie Wineinger, September 15, 2021
Date: September 15, 2021
Creator: Wineinger, Julie; Kerr, Dan; Wineinger, Julie; Kerr, Dan
Subject: celebrate petworth; neighborhood festival; community; celebration; vendors; art; street art; ice cream; neighbors
Country: United States
Collection: 2021 "Celebrate Petworth" Festival
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/humanitiestruck:3030
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Title: Interview with Karen Abbott, September 15, 2021
Date: September 15, 2021
Creator: Abbott, Karen; Kerr, Dan; Whitehurst, Angie; Kerr, Dan; Whitehurst, Angie; Abbott, Karen
Subject: celebrate petworth; neighborhood festival; memory; celebration; house parties; food; photographs; family
Country: United States
Collection: 2021 "Celebrate Petworth" Festival
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/humanitiestruck:3033
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Title: Interview with Martin Amini, September 15, 2021
Date: September 15, 2021
Creator: Amini, Martin; Kerr, Dan; Kerr, Dan; Amini, Martin
Subject: celebrate petworth; neighborhood festival; community; celebration; comedy; jazz; music; room 808
Country: United States
Collection: 2021 "Celebrate Petworth" Festival
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/humanitiestruck:3037
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Title: Interview with Taushia and Madison Walker, September 25, 2021
Date: September 25, 2021
Creator: Kerr, Dan; Walker, Taushia; Walker, Madison; Kerr, Dan; Walker, Taushia; Walker, Madison
Subject: celebrate petworth; neighborhood festival; community; celebration; neighbors; foreign service; quarantine; porch fest; ice cream
Country: United States
Collection: 2021 "Celebrate Petworth" Festival
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/humanitiestruck:3046
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Title: Don Beyer Interview, September 18, 2021
Date: September 18, 2021
Creator: Beyer, Don; Whitehurst, Angie; Beyer, Don; Kerr, Dan
Subject: working in dc; AFL-CIO; labor; labor day; musical; family; children; public service; public policy
Country: United States
Collection: Working in D.C.
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/humanitiestruck:3065
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Title: Karen Abbott Interview, September 15, 2021
Date: September 15, 2021
Creator: Abbott, Karen; Kerr, Dan; Whitehurst, Angie; Kerr, Dan; Whitehurst, Angie; Abbott, Karen
Description: In this interview, Karen Abbott describes how her mother, Norma Adkins, who was raised in Georgetown, made dioramas in the basement of their house in Petworth in the early 1970s following her retirement. A native Washingtonian who still resides in Petworth, Karen discusses the changes she's seen in Petworth.
Subject: diorama; art; craft; sewing; history; family; petworth
Country: United States
Collection: Washington's Black History in Miniature: Norma Adkins' Dioramas
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/humanitiestruck:3128
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Title: Underground Railroad: Karen Abbott Interview, October 19, 2021
Date: October 19, 2021
Creator: Abbott, Karen; Kerr, Dan; Whitehurst, Angie; Kerr, Dan; Whitehurst, Angie; Abbott, Karen
Description: Karen Abbott surmises that her mother may have rendered this scene of enslaved persons escaping on the Underground Railroad by drawing from a story she was told as a child. Men, women, and children are bundled in clothes to prepare for their journey, and Karen sees prayer, joy, and fear etched on their faces and evident through their figures.
Subject: dioramas; underground railroad; history; slavery; freedom; storytelling
Country: United States
Collection: Washington's Black History in Miniature: Norma Adkins' Dioramas
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/humanitiestruck:3131
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Title: Georgetown Kitchen: Karen Abbott Interview, October 19, 2021
Date: October 19, 2021
Creator: Abbott, Karen; Kerr, Dan; Whitehurst, Angie; Kerr, Dan; Whitehurst, Angie; Abbott, Karen
Description: Karen Abbott describes how her mother captured her grandmother’s kitchen in her house in Georgetown at 27 and N St. Karen believes the two children may be her mother and her brother, making the woman standing by the stove her grandmother, and the man in the chair her grandfather. Karen shares her own memories of this kitchen, where she was bathed in the old washtub. “Georgetown was home,” Karen states, and her mother was devastated when her grandmother sold the house in the 1950s, one sale of many prompted by and part of the neighborhood’s gentrification.
Subject: dioramas; family; kitchen; home; georgetown; gentrification; history
Country: United States
Collection: Washington's Black History in Miniature: Norma Adkins' Dioramas
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/humanitiestruck:3132
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Title: Church Choir: Karen Abbott Interview, September 15, 2021
Date: September 15, 2021
Creator: Whitehurst, Angie; Kerr, Dan; Abbott, Karen; Kerr, Dan; Whitehurst, Angie; Abbott, Karen
Description: Karen Abbott describes the diorama depicting a church choir, likely worshipping in the Brentwood AME Zion Church. The minister stands at the pulpit while the choir and piano player— Norma’s friend and Karen’s godmother—lead the congregation in song. According to Karen, this diorama was one of her mother’s favorites.
Subject: diorama; sewing; church; choir; music; AME church; religion
Country: United States
Collection: Washington's Black History in Miniature: Norma Adkins' Dioramas
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/humanitiestruck:3137
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Title: Slave Auction: Karen Abbott Interview, September 15, 2021
Date: September 15, 2021
Creator: Abbott, Karen; Kerr, Dan; Whitehurst, Angie; Whitehurst, Angie; Kerr, Dan; Abbott, Karen
Description: Karen Abbott discusses this diorama scene depicting a slave auction, where three enslaved persons in chains are being sold to white buyers while another enslaved man begs for their freedom. Each figure in the diorama is made from stockings and sculpey clay.
Subject: dioramas; art; craft; slavery; slave auction
Country: United States
Collection: Washington's Black History in Miniature: Norma Adkins' Dioramas
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/humanitiestruck:3140
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Title: Jazz Club: Karen Abbott Interview, September 15, 2021
Date: September 15, 2021
Creator: Abbott, Karen; Kerr, Dan; Whitehurst, Angie; Abbott, Karen; Kerr, Dan; Whitehurst, Angie
Description: Karen Abbott surmises this scene was inspired by her mother’s attendance at a performance in a jazz club. The singer—who Karen believes may resemble Roberta Flack—is accompanied by a trio of musicians.
Subject: dioramas; jazz; music; club; performers; roberta flack
Country: United States
Collection: Washington's Black History in Miniature: Norma Adkins' Dioramas
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/humanitiestruck:3112
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Title: Pool Hall: Interview with Karen Abbott, September 15, 2021
Date: September 15, 2021
Creator: Abbott, Karen; Kerr, Dan; Whitehurst, Angie; Whitehurst, Angie; Kerr, Dan; Abbott, Karen
Description: Karen Abbott surmises that this diorama depicts a pool hall in Georgetown where men gathered to play pool, gamble, and drink together. The cards and broken chairs on the floor are evidence of the arguments and brawls that broke out regularly in the pool hall.
Subject: dioramas; pool hall; bar; cards; gambling; georgetown; fight
Country: United States
Collection: Washington's Black History in Miniature: Norma Adkins' Dioramas
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/humanitiestruck:3115
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