Untitled (Keeping in Touch)
- 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 two (2) women sitting on a couch with three (3) children. The woman on the left, Mary Francis Hill Coley, wears a pin striped dress. She holds a young girl, smiling, in her lap. The young girl wears a lightly colored dress and looks to the baby on the lap of the woman on the right. The woman on the right, Martha Butler Sapp, wears a geometric patterned dress and a white, round earring in her proper left ear. The woman on the left is tickling the baby in the lap of the woman on the right. In the lower right corner is a small child, seated, looking away from the camera. The couch on which all five (5) are sitting is striped with dark and light stripes in a vertically oriented pattern. On the left side of the image is a brick wall.
- 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
- 2009.1.1
- Restrictions & Rights
- © 1987 Robert Galbraith
- Permission required for use. Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.