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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
mods_typeOfResource_mt: mixed material

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
mods_typeOfResource_mt: mixed material

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
mods_typeOfResource_mt: mixed material

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
mods_typeOfResource_mt: mixed material

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
mods_typeOfResource_mt: mixed material

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
mods_typeOfResource_mt: mixed material

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
mods_typeOfResource_mt: mixed material

Title: Clothing Store: 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 narrates this diorama scene set in a clothing store during Christmastime. She calls attention to the cashier, the husband waiting while his wife shops, and details like the hat rack, purse, and gloves on the counter.
Subject: diorama; shopping; store; clothing; Christmas; library
Country: United States
Collection: Washington's Black History in Miniature: Norma Adkins' Dioramas
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/humanitiestruck:3118
mods_typeOfResource_mt: text

Title: Classroom: Karen Abbott Interview, October 19, 2021
Date: October 19, 2021
Creator: Abbott, Karen; Whitehurst, Angie; Kerr, Dan; Whitehurst, Angie; Kerr, Dan; Abbott, Karen
Description: Karen Abbott describes this classroom scene as inspired by her mother’s attendance at Thaddeus Stevens Elementary School in Georgetown. Her teacher, Mrs. Day is featured here, as is one male classmate who she remembered as frequently disruptive: he is captured turning around in his seat.
Subject: dioramas; school; classroom; learning; teacher; discipline
Country: United States
Collection: Washington's Black History in Miniature: Norma Adkins' Dioramas
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/humanitiestruck:3121
mods_typeOfResource_mt: mixed material

Title: Our Haven Park: Karen Abbott Interview, October 19, 2021
Date: October 19, 2021
Creator: Abbott, Karen; Whitehurst, Angie; Kerr, Dan; Abbott, Karen; Whitehurst, Angie; Kerr, Dan
Description: Karen Abbott narrates this diorama set in “Our Haven” park, located on the corner of Illinois and Hamilton St. in Petworth, where unhoused persons slept in the 1960s and 70s. A woman with her belongings in a shopping cart and an inebriated man under a tree occupy the park in this scene.
Subject: dioramas; minature club; park; homeless; petworth
Country: United States
Collection: Washington's Black History in Miniature: Norma Adkins' Dioramas
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/humanitiestruck:3109
mods_typeOfResource_mt: mixed material

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
mods_typeOfResource_mt: mixed material

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
mods_typeOfResource_mt: mixed material

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
mods_typeOfResource_mt: mixed media

Title: Oludae Byrd Interview, October 16, 2021
Date: October 16, 2021
Creator: Byrd, Oludae; Kerr, Dan; Byrd, Oludae; Kerr, Dan
Description: Oludae talks about the design of his poster and his family's trip to the MLK, Jr. Library.
Subject: Miu Eng; art; Chinatown; Asian American history; poster; library; books
Country: United States
Collection: Miu Eng Poster Day 2021
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/humanitiestruck:3210
mods_typeOfResource_mt: mixed material

Title: Pride 2023 Image 55
Date: June 11, 2023
Creator: Davenport, Corinne; Kerr, Dan
Description: An image of the " I Show Pride By..." photo card for mapping activity.
Subject: Queer, Pride 23 , Mapping Activity, " I Show Pride By..."
Country: United States
Collection: Photos of Mapping Activity
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/humanitiestruck:5146
mods_typeOfResource_mt: still image

Title: Pride 2023 Image 54
Date: June 11, 2023
Creator: Davenport, Corinne; Kerr, Dan
Description: A photo of a group response to the photo card for mapping activity.
Subject: Queer, Pride 23, Group, photo cards
Country: United States
Collection: Photos of Mapping Activity
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/humanitiestruck:5145
mods_typeOfResource_mt: still image

Title: Pride 2023 Image 75
Date: June 11, 2023
Creator: Davenport, Corinne; Kerr, Dan
Description: A prompt card and portrait from Pride 2023 connected on the map to where the person pictured "got [their] dad hug at [their] first pride".
Country: United States
Collection: Photos of Mapping Activity
mods_typeOfResource_mt: still image

Title: Pride 2023 Image 58
Date: June 11, 2023
Creator: Davenport, Corinne; Kerr, Dan
Description: An image of the " I Connect With My LGBTQ Community By ..." photo card for mapping activity.
Subject: Queer, Pride 23 , Mapping Activity, " I Connect With My LGBTQ+ Community..."
Country: United States
Collection: Photos of Mapping Activity
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/humanitiestruck:5150
mods_typeOfResource_mt: still image

Title: Pride 2023 Image 59
Date: June 11, 2023
Creator: Davenport, Corinne; Kerr, Dan
Description: An image of the couple using a " This Space Is ..." photo card.
Subject: Queer, Pride 23 , Mapping Activity, " This Space Is ..."
Country: United States
Collection: Photos of Mapping Activity
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/humanitiestruck:5151
mods_typeOfResource_mt: still image

Title: Pride 2023 Image 56
Date: June 11, 2023
Creator: Davenport, Corinne; Kerr, Dan
Description: An image of " This is Where..." photo card for mapping activity.
Subject: Queer, Pride 23 , Mapping Activity, This is Where
Country: United States
Collection: Photos of Mapping Activity
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/humanitiestruck:5148
mods_typeOfResource_mt: still image

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