Untitled (Timing Contractions)
- Photograph by
- Galbraith, Robert, American, 1919 - 2015
- 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): 26 1/4 x 39 1/4 in. (66.7 x 99.7 cm)
- Description
- Black and white image of two (2) women, one seated and one standing over the other. Both women stand in a room with a mantel and stove on the left side, a crib behind them up against the far wall as well as a door on the right. The stove can be seen in the lower left corner with the mantel extending up the left side of the image. On the mantel are picture frames and knickknacks. Behind the women is a white crib standing in front of a curtained window with the shade drawn. To the right of the window, along the right side of the image is a door that also has a window with the shade drawn. The two (2) women are in the lower half of the image. The woman on the left is pregnant and seated in a chair and wears a terry cloth robe and a hair wrap. The woman on the right stands over the pregnant woman with her proper right hand resting on the stomach of the pregnant woman. She wears a pin striped dress with short sleeves. Her proper left hand rests on her proper right leg. The standing woman looks off to her proper left.
- 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
- 2009.1.38
- Restrictions & Rights
- © 1987 Robert Galbraith
- Permission required for use. Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.