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Untitled (Bonding with Baby)

1952; printed 2005

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

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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 Martha Sapp holding a baby, both lying in bed. Sapp lays in a bed, covered in blankets and sheets, smiling, open-mouthed. Her proper right hand holds the proper left hand of her child. Her head rest on a pillow. She and the baby take up most of the image, diagonally, from the upper left to the lower right. the baby lays eyes closed and hands raised to its face. The child is wrapped in a striped, plaid blanket.

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Catalog reference: 2009.1.19

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