Archive record · Historical photographs & visual records
Melville J. and Francis Shapiro Herskovits standing before the railroad tracks at Kabel, Suriname
1929
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 “Melville J. and Francis Shapiro Herskovits standing before the railroad tracks at Kabel, Suriname” (Negatives (photographic); Black-and-white negatives).
- Collection
- Melville Herskovits photographs
- Archival grouping
- Melville Herskovits photographs / Suriname
- Catalog date
- 1929
- 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 metadata · CC0 · Source checked 2026-10-20
Catalog reference: EEPA.1986-029, Item EEPA 1986-290495
Collection: Melville Herskovits photographs