Eleanor Dickinson Pentecostal Videotape and Audiotape Collection
name: label: Producer
content: Dickinson, Eleanor, 1931-
label: Collector
content: National Museum of American History (U.S.). Division of Community Life
label: Interviewee
content: Mayes, Harrison
place: label: Place
content: Appalachian Region
topic: label: Topic
content: Baptists
label: Topic
content: Evangelistic work
label: Topic
content: Religion -- Videotapes
label: Topic
content: Religion and culture -- Videotapes
label: Topic
content: Foot washing (Rite)
label: Topic
content: Ecstatic dance
label: Topic
content: Imposition of hands
label: Topic
content: Foot -- Religious aspects
label: Topic
content: Revivals
label: Topic
content: Exorcism
label: Topic
content: Baptism
label: Topic
content: Snake cults (Holiness churches) -- Videotapes
label: Topic
content: Rites and ceremonies -- Videtoapes
label: Topic
content: Pentecostal churches
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Collection donated by Eleanor Dickinson in 1980 and transferred to the Archives Center from the National Museum of American History Division of Community Life in 1986.
creator: label: Producer
content: Dickinson, Eleanor, 1931-
label: Collector
content: National Museum of American History (U.S.). Division of Community Life
setName: label: See more items in
content: Eleanor Dickinson Pentecostal Videotape and Audiotape Collection
abstract: label: Summary
content: Collection document of many types of Pentecostal ceremonies, through video and audio tapes.
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Eleanor Creekmore Dickinson, artist, produced several exhibits as well as a book on Pentecostal worship in the South entitled Revival!  She documented Pentecostal and Baptist ceremonies using videotape, audiotape, line drawings and velvet painting.

Dickinson was born February 7, 1931, in Knoxville, Tennessee.  She was educated at the University of Tennessee (B.A., Fine Art, 1952); the San Francisco Art Institute (painting and printmaking, 1961-1963); the Académie Grande Chaumière, Paris (drawing, 1971); the University of California at Berkeley (history, 1967 and 1981), and the California College of Arts and Crafts (Master of Fine Arts in Video, 1982).  She began teaching at the California College of Arts and Crafts as Professor of Art in 1971.

She has had numerous solo and group exhibitions, has received grants in connection with her work, and is represented in more than a dozen public collections, including the Corcoran Gallery of Art, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Library of Congress, and the Oakland Museum.

A resume and selected bibliography, compiled in 1986, are in the Archives Center's collection control files.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 0.5 Cubic feet (2 boxes, 6 videotapes, 1 audiotape)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1967-1977
custodhist: label: Custodial History
content: Collection transferred to the Archives Center from Division of Community Life (now Division of Cultural and Community Life).
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NMAH.AC.0199
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Videotapes
label: Type
content: Audiotapes
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: Collection is arranged in one series:

Series 1, Audiovisual
processinfo: label: Processing Information
content: Collection processed by David Haberstich, 2002, revised by Wendy Shay, 2017.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Videotapes
label: Genre/Form
content: Audiotapes -- 1940-1980
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Videotapes of Pentecostal ceremonies, such as snake handling, laying on of hands, baptisms, foot washing, casting out of devils, dancing in ecstasy; a video interview with Brother Harrison Mayes at his home in Middleburg, Kentucky; and an audiotape of revival meetings.
relatedmaterial: label: Related Materials
content: Related artifacts in Division of Community Life (now Division of Cultural and Community Life) (see accessions 306082, 306787, 1981.0570, and 1978.0344); related materials in the Smithsonian Archives of American Art and the Library of Congress.