Frank Gouldsmith Speck photograph collection
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- Creators:
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Speck, Frank G. (Frank Gouldsmith), 1881-1950
- Dates:
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1909-1937
- Size:
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1428 Negatives (photographic)
40 Photographic prints (black & white)
- Collection ID:
- NMAI.AC.001.032
- Repository:
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National Museum of the American Indian
The Frank Gouldsmith Speck photograph collection includes portraits of individuals and families, as well as scenic shots and landscape views made between 1909 and 1937. Speck was an anthropologist and ethnographer, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania, and worked on behalf of the Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation collecting ethnographic materials across the Eastern United States and Canada. His collection of photographs includes materials from native communities ranging from Newfoundland to Ontario in Canada and from Maine to South Carolina in the United States.
