Henry Bazemore collection of Frederick Douglass Dwellings photographs
Object Details
- Biographical/Historical note
- Built as temporary housing for World War II workers, the Frederick Douglass Dwellings were located on land previously owned by Tobias Henson, a former slave, who, after purchasing his freedom and that of his family, purchased and developed a 24-acre tract called The Ridge. Henson added to his landholdings and by the 1870s his family was the principal landholder in the black community of Stantontown; they remained on the land until the 1940s, when the federal government condemned the community to build the Frederick Douglass Dwellings. Deemed uninhabitable in 1998 and left vacant, the Frederick Douglass Dwellings were demolished in 2000 to make way for a new mixed-income community.
- Date
- circa 1940s
- Extent
- 0.42 Linear feet ((1 box))
- Citation
- Henry Bazemore collection of Frederick Douglass Dwellings photographs, Anacostia Community Museum Archives, Smithsonian Institution, gift of Henry Bazemore.
- Type
- Collection descriptions
- Archival materials
- Photographic prints
- Photographs
- Topic
- Public housing
- African American neighborhoods
- African Americans -- Social life and customs
- African Americans
- Place
- Anacostia (Washington, D.C.)
- Identifier
- ACMA.06-067
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EAD Collection Results
- Portrait of Bazemore siblings
- Tom Thumb wedding
- Banquet at Frederick Douglass Recreation Center
- Soap box derby at Frederick Douglass Recreation center
- Carpentry shop exhibit
- Family Photos
- Members of Southeast Voices
- Location of former Frederick Douglass Dwellings community
- Photo display at Frederick Douglass Recreation Center
- Frederick Douglass Recreation Center
- Frederick Douglass Dwellings
- Location of former Frederick Douglass Dwellings community
- Photographer
- Frederick Douglass Recreation center
- Henry Bazemore standing near soap box car
- Sport Activities
- Portrait of Mildred Bazemore
- Snapshot of Frank R. Jackson
- Tumbling class at Frederick Douglass Recreation Center
- Art work exhibit
- Art Show
- Soapbox Derby
- Demolition contact sheet of Frederick Douglass Dwellings
- Young adults drinking soda at Frederick Douglass Recreation Center