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Center for Inspired Teaching 'Real World History' Oral History Project
Collection — external hard drive: DIG_00029
Identifier: 194
Content Description
Oral history interviews recorded by students in the Real World History class at Center for Inspired Teaching.
Dates:
2014-
Creating and Teaching Real World History Oral History Project
Collection — external hard drive: DIG_00029
Identifier: 198
Content Description
Creating and Teaching Real World History is a companion project to the Center for Inspired Teaching 'Real World History' Oral History Project. This project includes interviews with Cosby Hunt, creator of the Real World History program, Caitlin Wolf, co-teacher of Real World History from 2015-2017, and Ms. Edith Crutchfield, a long-time D.C. resident who moved to Washington, D.C., from Culpeper, Virginia, in 1953. Ms. Crutchfield first became involved with Real World History when she...
Dates:
1931-2021, undated; Majority of material found within 2020-10 - 2021-03
Joseph Owen Curtis Photographic Collection
Collection — external hard drive: DIG_00012
Identifier: P007
Scope and Contents
The collection contains approximately 270 black and white prints and 83 slides, the majority of which depict the African-American community of the Southwest neighborhood of Washington, D.C., primarily from the 1920s through the 1970s. The photographs document a historic neighborhood that would be largely razed in the 1950s and 1960s, dramatically changing the landscape and population of the neighborhood.
The photographs of streets, businesses, and buildings provide visual...
Dates:
1910 - 1989
Francis A. Gregory Genealogical Collection
Collection
Identifier: 005
Scope and Contents
The collection was artificially created by the Library and consists of the Shaed and Baltimore family papers; as well materials regarding Elzie Hoffman. It includes photographs, programs, published books, biographies, letters, certificates, diaries, scrapbooks, clippings, and other family memorabilia. The collection has been divided into series by family. Many of the items are related to Washington, D.C. educational institutions that most of the members of the families attended; Dunbar...
Dates:
1902 - 1975
Holloman Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: 041
Scope and Contents
The papers consist primarily of the correspondence of Reverend Holloman from the 1920s through the 1960s, years in which he served as pastor of the Second Baptist Church of Washington, D.C. Reverend Holloman's handwritten lecture notes and manuscripts of sermons, speeches, and articles are in the collection as well as some records from the Second Baptist church. Files regarding the Holloman's work in the Lott Carey Society, the National Baptist Convention, Eastern Star, Alpha Sigma...
Dates:
1915-1975
Ivy City Oral History Project Collection
Collection
Identifier: OHP027
Scope and Contents
From 2005 and 2007, Ingrid Drake coordinated the Ivy City Oral History Project, in collaboration with the youth of Ivy City Achievers. She interviewed and supervised interviews with residents of the Ivy City neighborhood of Washington, D.C. The project was part of a larger initiative of Empower D.C., a grassroots nonprofit in D.C., called the Ivy City Neighborhood and Oral History Project, which began in 2004. The larger initiative arose from a plan to preserve Alexander Crummell School in...
Dates:
2005-2007
Dorothy Provine Free Black Research Collection
Collection
Identifier: 139
Scope and Contents
The Dorothy Provine Free Black Research Collection contains photocopies of wills, marriage registers, freedom records, manumissions records, research files, writings by Provine, birth records, death records, records of social organizations, genealogy records, and records of black property owners. It should be noted that while the documents in this collection date from 1686 to 1997, nearly all records in this collection are photocopies of original documents, made predominantly in the...
Dates:
1686-1997
Ruffin/Jones Family Collection
Collection
Identifier: 145
Scope and Contents
The Ruffin/Jones Family Collection contains photographs, cassette tapes with audio recordings of interviews, and printed material such as articles and publications, brochures and programs, school-related items, letters, and research files and notes pertaining to C. Bernard Ruffin, III and members of his family. The life and work of his aunt, Louise Jones Hubbard, is particularly well-documented; material related to her makes up a large portion of the collection. The collection is...
Dates:
1842 - 1999 (bulk 1920s - 1999); Majority of material found within 1920 - 1999
Saving a Community's Recollections: Takoma Park Oral History Project
Collection — external hard drive: DIG_00006
Identifier: OHP021
Scope and Contents
In 2001 the Oral History Committee of Historic Takoma received a grant from Montgomery County's Historic Preservation Commission to conduct interviews with three longtime residents of Takoma Park, Maryland. Topics include public schools, World War II, architecture, real estate development, transportation, the African-American community, race relations, churches, and recreation in the neighborhood and metropolitan area. All interviews were conducted Eilene McGuckian.
Dates:
2001
Savoy Family Genealogical Collection
Collection
Identifier: 150
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of genealogical information related to the Savoy family of Washington, DC, obtained from family members’ records and research. It documents members of the Savoy family born between the years of 1794 and 2009; however, most of the material and information within the collection pertains to Savoy family ancestors born between 1794 and 1912. The life of Edward Augustine Savoy (1855 - 1943) is particularly well-documented. The collection includes materials such as...
Dates:
1836-2013