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Frances Herskovits and assistant Jacoba Abensitt in Paramaribo, Suriname
1928
Africa; Suriname
Source catalog description
This description refers to material held by Smithsonian Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art. Visual details below describe the original material.
Cataloged as “Frances Herskovits and assistant Jacoba Abensitt in Paramaribo, Suriname” (Negatives (photographic); Black-and-white negatives).
- Collection
- Melville Herskovits photographs
- Archival grouping
- Melville Herskovits photographs / Suriname
- Catalog date
- 1928
- Recorded places
- Africa; Suriname
- Cataloged creator or photographer
- Herskovits, Melville J. (Melville Jean), 1895-1963
- Recorded subjects
- Portrait photography
- Format and extent
- 1 Negatives (photographic) (b&w, 4x5 in.)
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Sources & collection details
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Catalog reference: EEPA.1986-029, Item EEPA 1986-290564
Collection: Melville Herskovits photographs