Album: Frank Gouldsmith Speck Collection

Captain John Smith Chesapeake National Historic Trail

Frank Gouldsmith Speck was a photographer, anthropologist, and professor at the University of Pennsylvania who conducted ethnographies of Native communities in the United States and Canada. Between 1909 - 1937, Speck spent time with dozens of Tribes, including many local to the Chesapeake Bay. Working on behalf of the Museum of the American Indian, Heye Collection, his photographs are now housed by the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of the American Indian.