Portrait of Theodora Octavia Dennis Cook

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Scope and Contents: Outdoor portrait of Pamunkey woman Theodora Octavia Dennis Cook, wife of Chief George Major Cook, wearing a dark dress, beaded headband, beaded v-shaped necklace, and woven sash, posed in front of a white clapboard building on the Pamunkey Reservation, Virginia.

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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...