Untitled (Keeping in Touch)

Source catalog description

This description refers to material held by Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Visual details below describe the original material.

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.

Catalog date

1952; printed 2005

Recorded places

Albany, Dougherty County, Georgia, United States, North and Central America

Recorded subjects

African American; Black Enterprise; Children; Families; Health; Labor; Medicine; Midwifery

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