Museum object · Photographs and Still Images
Untitled (Running for Midwife)
1952; printed 2005
Albany, Dougherty County, Georgia, United States, North and Central America
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 a man running to a truck. The truck, seen left of center in the yard of a house, is dark colored and is missing a hub cap on the back tire. The front of the truck is dented falling apart. On the either side of the bed of the truck are wooden panels attached to the inside. The back window has spider web cracks. The man, seen running off of a porch to the driver's side of the truck. The man wears a dark hat and jacket. His pants and shirt are light-colored with stains and rips throughout. The house is a clapboard house with tarpapered roof and eaves. On the porch of the house are a wooden chair and cardboard Tide box. A chimney can be seen on the far gable. On the right side of the image in the foreground is a bare tree.
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Catalog reference: 2009.1.12
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