The Real McCoy Exhibit Tour
Object Details
- Creator
- Anacostia Museum
- James, Portia P.
- Scope and Contents
- Tour guide leads visitors through exhibition, The Real McCoy: African-American Invention and Innovation. The tour guide talks about West African influence on pottery, rice production, textiles, sugar cane production, whaling industry, agricultural devices, domestic service devices, and railroad industry in the United States. Norbert Rillieux, Lewis Temple, and Henry Bowman are profiled. The tour guide also talks about patents, the early patent office, and patent applications by blacks. Tour guide answers visitors' questions.
- Tour of exhibit; audio only. Part of The Real McCoy: Afro-American Invention and Innovation 1619-1930 Audiovisual Materials. Poor audio quality. Undated.
- Date
- circa 1989
- Extent
- 1 Sound recording (audio cassette)
- Type
- Archival materials
- Sound recordings
- Topic
- African Americans
- African American inventors
- Inventors
- Inventions
- Technology
- Technological innovations
- Patents
- Patent laws and legislation
- Enslaved persons
- Slavery
- Museum exhibits
- Place
- Anacostia (Washington, D.C.)
- Washington (D.C.)
- United States
- Africa, West
- Citation
- The Real McCoy Exhibit Tour, Exhibition Records AV03-026, Anacostia Community Museum Archives, Smithsonian Institution.
- Identifier
- ACMA.03-026, Item ACMA AV001611
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- Date
- 1989-05 - 1990-05