Maine and New Hampshire: Penobscot, Passamaquoddy, Abenaki

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Collection Citation: Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Frank Speck photograph collection, Photo Number; National Museum of the American Indian Archive Center, Smithsonian Institution.

Collection Rights: Permission to publish materials from the collection must be requested from National Museum of the American Indian Archive Center. Please submit a written request to nmaiphotos@si.edu. For personal or classroom use, users are invited to download, print, photocopy, and distribute the images that are available online without prior written permission, provided that the files are not modified in any way, the Smithsonian Institution copyright notice (where applicable) is included, and the source of the image is identified as the National Museum of the American Indian. For more information please see the Smithsonian's Terms of Use and NMAI Archive Center's Digital Image request website.

Scope and Contents: This series includes negatives that Frank Speck made in Maine in New Hampshire among the Penobscot, Passamaquoddy and Abenaki communities between 1910 and 1924. The majority of the photographs were shot in Old Town, Penobscot County, Maine and feature portraits of Penobscot community members as well as images of canoes, wigwams and hunting trips.
Catalog Numbers: Negatives: N11865, N11978, N11987, N11998, N12018, N12071, N12268, N12269, N12277, N12295, N12302, N12303, N12341, N12364, N12373, N12425, N12451, N12452, N12454, N12457, N12482, N12483, N12486-N12491, N12499, N12500, N12502, N12505-N12508, N12511, N12512, N12522-N12525, N12578, N12641, N12844-N12850, N12854, N12855, N12857, N12911, N12925-N12927, N12930-N12963, N12967-N12974, N12977-N12987, N12989, N12991-N13009, N13011-N13017, N14275, N14276.

Collection Restrictions: Access to NMAI Archive Center collections is by appointment only, Monday - Friday, 9:30 am - 4:30 pm. Please contact the archives to make an appointment (phone: 301-238-1400, email: nmaiarchives@si.edu).

NMAI.AC.001.032_ref514

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Frank Gouldsmith Speck photograph collection

Creator

Speck, Frank G. (Frank Gouldsmith), 1881-1950

Summary

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 Sta...