Frank Abbott collection of photographs of South Africans
odd: label: Local Call Number(s)
content: NAA Photo Lot 80-29
name: label: Collector
content: Abbott, Frank
label: Names
content: Dinizulu kaCetshwayo Zulu
label: Photographer
content: Middlebrook, J. E.
label: Photographer
content: Pollard, Francis E.
index: label: Addl. KW Subj
content: Hottentot
creator: label: Collector
content: Abbott, Frank
culture: label: Culture
content: Khoikhoi (African people)
label: Culture
content: Zulu (African people)
setName: label: See more items in
content: Frank Abbott collection of photographs of South Africans
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Frank Abbott was an American doctor who went to South Africa in 1897-1899 as a representative of the phramaceutical company Parke, Davis and Company.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 13 Prints (albumen and possibly silver gelatin)
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1897-1899
custodhist: label: Custodial History
content: Donated by Helen Abbott Taylor, Frank Abbott's daughter, through curator of African ethnology Gordon Gibson, in 1980.
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.PhotoLot.80-29
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Prints
label: Type
content: Photographs
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Photographs
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Photographs that largely depict Zulu people, including Dinzulu kaCetshwayo, and a Hottentot woman. Represented photographers include Francis E. Pollard, J.E. Middlebrook, and possibly J. Barnett & Company.
relatedmaterial: label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: Additional photographs by J.E. Middlebrook can be found in the National Anthropological Archives in Photo Lot 97.

Artifacts collected by Frank Abbott were donated to the anthropology collections of the National Museum of Natural History in accession 349800.