Untitled (Midwife Visiting Mother)
- Created 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 porch fronts on a street with Mary Coley and Martha Sapp standing on a porch in the mid-ground. The image is captured from the porch of a house next to the one the women are visiting. A column from the porch can be seen on the right side of the image. Between the houses, is a clothesline strung on a tree. The clothesline has towels and cloths pinned to the line. The house with the visiting women on the porch is light-colored with white trim. On the porch is wooden furniture. The two (2) women are in shadow and Sapp wears a scarf wrapped around her head and chin. Coley stands in front of Sapp. Behind the women is a building advertising cosmetics and medicines. In the yard of in front of this building is a small yard sign advertising Kinnett's Ice Cream. The sign is dark colored with white letters [Eat/Kinnett's / ICE CREAM]. On the far right side of the image is the street with two (2) cars, one light-colored and the other white. In the background are trees and foliage, as seen on the far right and upper right quadrant.
- 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
- 2009.1.25
- Restrictions & Rights
- © 1987 Robert Galbraith
- Permission required for use. Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.