Untitled (Just chatting)
- 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): 19 x 14 1/2 in. (48.3 x 36.8 cm)
- H x W (Sheet): 20 x 16 in. (50.8 x 40.6 cm)
- Description
- Black and white image of Mary Coley and Martha Sapp. Sapp stands with her proper right knee resting on a chair seat. Coley stands, out of focus on the right side of the image, and irons. The women stand near a whitewashed, cement block wall on which hang picture frames filled with images of babies and small children. Sapp wears a dark, plaid outfit. She is seen smiling at the Coley and her body faces the camera in three-quarter view. Her proper left hand rests on the top of the chair back covered with jackets. Behind her is a door with a window curtained with sheer fabric. On the wall, above and to the right of the woman, is a large rectangular picture frame with three (3) smaller picture frames underneath. In the upper right corner of the image is a what appears to be a microphone.
- 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
- 2009.1.27
- Restrictions & Rights
- © 1987 Robert Galbraith
- Permission required for use. Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.