Dates

• Creation: 1973 - 2016

Inventory

Box 1 (1978 - 2000): 38 cassette tapes and 1 microcassette with audio covering DC Historical Studies annual conference sessions and lectures. Tape topics include: the end of the exclusion policy, riots, working women, the Olmstead’s influence on Washington’s landscape, Black writers of the 1920s, childhood memories of Washington, Washington folklore, military and business history. Box 2 (1973 - 1984): A Washington DC cultural walking tour on audiocassette and several flyers advertising other Tape Walks cassettes. 33 additional cassette tapes covering DC Historical Studies annual conference sessions and lectures in topics including: Washington trivia, reflections of the Black perspective, development of post Civil War Washington, and the history of the Takoma Park, Mount Pleasant, LeDroit Park, Georgetown, and Alexandria neighborhoods. Box 3 (1999-2005): Contains two folders of meeting notes, correspondence, and session papers all related to the 2005 32nd annual DC Historical Studies Conference, a bound booklet covering the history of the District of Columbia’s old Southwest region, and a folder containing documents related to labor management. Box 4 (1978-1993): Contains 17 audiocassettes and 2 VHS tapes. The cassettes feature music by Rob Charles, Georgetown audio walking tours, conference talks, and public hearings. The first VHS tape focuses on the DC Department of Consumer and Regulatory Affairs while the second is a TV recording of a Washington DC news segment on youth and the illegal drug epidemic (first 5 min), and a "Siempre en Domingo", Spanish language musical variety show episode live from Paraguay. Box 5 (2005): Audio recorded sessions from the 32nd annual DC Historical Studies Conference on 11 cassette tapes. Box 6 (1999-2005) : Contains three conference advertisements from the 30th and 32nd annual Historical Studies Conferences, one is on foam board, two are paper posters. Other items in the box include itinerary brochures, reservation forms, schedules, and ten folders holding memos, conference evaluation forms, directional signage, photo inquiries, correspondence, panel presentation summaries, and Technology Task Force notes. Box 7 (1978-2016): A folder from the Committee on the annual DC Historical Studies Conference, a folder of assorted documents from the DC Historical Studies Conference Planning Committee, an array of loose documents inclusive of event schedules, meeting notes, conference pamphlets, email correspondence, conference panel and paper summaries, DC Historical Studies Handbooks, agendas, reservation forms, and post-conference surveys. Box 8 (1974-1997): Several hundred presenter notecards from D.C. Historical Studies Conferences.