<I>Untitled (Mother Sharing Birthing Stories) </I>
date: label: Date
content: 1952; printed 2005
name: label: Photograph by
content: Robert Galbraith, American, 1919 - 2015
label: Printed by
content: Igor Bakht, born 1928
label: Subject of
content: Mary Francis Hill Coley, American, 1900 - 1966
label: Subject of
content: Martha Butler Sapp, American, 1932 - 2003
label: Subject of
content: Alvin G. Sapp, American, born 1952
notes: label: Description
content: A black and white image of four (4) women and a baby seated on a bench. The woman on the far left, in the foreground wears a diamond patterned dress with a head scarf and glasses. The second to the left woman wears a light-colored shirt and checkered skirt. She also has a checkered bow tied around her hair. She also wears a white bow collar and pearls around her neck. In her proper right front pocket of her shirt are some pieces of paper. Her hands are folded in her lap. The woman second to the right is Martha Sapp. Sapp wears a light-colored dress with stylized triangles sewn to her collar. Her shirt front has three sparkly buttons and she wears a white, round earring in her proper right ear. In her lap is her son, Alvin Sapp, who is sleeping with his head resting on a cloth in the crook of the woman's proper left elbow. The woman on the far right, right of center, is wearing a plaid patterned dress with a wide white collar that has small daisies sewn to edges. Her hands are folded in her lap and hold a small piece of paper. All women are seated in front of a white brick walls. In the upper left corner are dark bricks on the wall behind the seated women.
place: label: Place depicted
content: Albany, Dougherty County, Georgia, United States, North and Central America
topic: label: Topic
content: African American
label: Topic
content: Black Enterprise
label: Topic
content: Children
label: Topic
content: Families
label: Topic
content: Health
label: Topic
content: Labor
label: Topic
content: Medicine
label: Topic
content: Midwifery
label: Topic
content: Motherhood
label: Topic
content: Photography
label: Topic
content: Rural life
label: Topic
content: Women
setName: label: See more items in
content: National Museum of African American History and Culture Collection
label: Portfolio/Series
content: Reclaiming Midwives: Stills from All My Babies
label: Classification
content: Photographs and Still Images
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Robert Galbraith
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of African American History and Culture
identifier: label: Object number
content: 2009.1.3
objectType: label: Type
content: gelatin silver prints
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: © 1987 Robert Galbraith
label: Restrictions & Rights
content: Permission required for use. Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: silver and photographic gelatin on photographic paper
label: Dimensions
content: H x W (Image): 14 1/2 x 19 in. (36.8 x 48.3 cm)
label: Dimensions
content: H x W (Sheet): 16 x 20 in. (40.6 x 50.8 cm)