Photograph of midwife Susie Carey
- Photograph by
- Unidentified
- Subject of
- Carey, Susie, American, 1879 - 1953
- Owned by
- Carter, Amanda Carey, American, 1909 - 2007
- Date
- 1940 - 1953
- Medium
- silver and photographic gelatin on photographic paper
- Dimensions
- H x W (Image): 4 11/16 × 3 in. (11.9 × 7.6 cm)
- H x W (Sheet): 5 × 3 1/2 in. (12.7 × 8.9 cm)
- Description
- A black-and-white photograph of third-generation midwife Susie Carey, standing on a dirt road in a rural landscape. She is wearing a white dress, black shoes and dark cardigan sweater. Her hair is pulled back and she wears glasses. On the verso is a handwritten inscription reading [Susie Carey].
- Place depicted
- Farmville, Prince Edward County, Virginia, United States, North and Central America
- Classification
- Photographs and Still Images
- Type
- gelatin silver prints
- portraits
- Topic
- Black Enterprise
- Families
- Labor
- Medicine
- Midwifery
- Motherhood
- Photography
- Women
- Credit Line
- Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Fannie Mae Carter Silver
- Object number
- 2014.282
- Restrictions & Rights
- Unknown - Restrictions Possible
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