Untitled (Keeping Mother Moving)
- Photograph by
- Galbraith, Robert, American, 1919 - 2015
- Printed by
- Bakht, Igor, born 1928
- Subject of
- Coley, Mary Francis Hill, American, 1900 - 1966
- Sapp, Martha Butler, American, 1932 - 2003
- Date
- 1952; printed 2005
- Medium
- silver and photographic gelatin on photographic paper
- Dimensions
- H x W (Image): 14 1/2 x 19 in. (36.8 x 48.3 cm)
- H x W (Sheet): 16 x 20 in. (40.6 x 50.8 cm)
- Description
- Black and white image of Martha Sapp walking near the end of a bed, while in the background, Mary Coley bends down away from the camera. Sapp, standing, wears a terry cloth robe and a head scarf. She is seen in profile with her proper left hand grasping the end of the bed frame. The bed is covered with a square patterned quilt with alternating squares of dark and light. On the table by the bed and tall mirror is a pile of cloths. Behind Sapp, partially obscured, Coley crouches away from the camera. She is wearing a light-colored dress with white cuffs and a white apron. To the left of her, in the lower left corner is a quilt, in an Irish Chain pattern, hanging off of a chair. Above the Coley are curtains surrounding a closed window. In the upper left of the image is a bare, light light bulb.
- Place depicted
- Albany, Dougherty County, Georgia, United States, North and Central America
- Portfolio/Series
- Reclaiming Midwives: Stills from All My Babies
- Classification
- Photographs and Still Images
- Type
- gelatin silver prints
- Topic
- Black Enterprise
- Children
- Families
- Health
- Labor
- Medicine
- Midwifery
- Motherhood
- Photography
- Rural life
- Women
- Credit Line
- Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Robert Galbraith
- Object number
- 2009.1.16
- Restrictions & Rights
- © 1987 Robert Galbraith
- Permission required for use. Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.