Untitled (Bonding with Baby)
- 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 (Image and Sheet): 16 x 20 in. (40.6 x 50.8 cm)
- Description
- Black and white image of Martha Sapp holding a baby, both lying in bed. Sapp lays in a bed, covered in blankets and sheets, smiling, open-mouthed. Her proper right hand holds the proper left hand of her child. Her head rest on a pillow. She and the baby take up most of the image, diagonally, from the upper left to the lower right. the baby lays eyes closed and hands raised to its face. The child is wrapped in a striped, plaid blanket.
- 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
- 2009.1.19
- Restrictions & Rights
- © 1987 Robert Galbraith
- Permission required for use. Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.