Young African American Nanny with Caucasian Boy
notes: label: Description
content: A mounted black and white photograph; young African American girl wearing a vertically striped dress, gathered at waist with white bonnet on her head; young white boy wearing light colored top and pants with black hose and black leather boots seated on the arm of a wicker chair holding a rod across his lap, wearing a hat on his head.
label: Description
content: From slavery to Jim Crow segregation, African American girls worked in fields and as maids. Girls found themselves serving families and becoming lifelong nursemaids and domestic workers.
label: Description
content: Girls as young as three carried heavy babies, scrubbed dirty diapers, and stayed up late to mend clothing.
label: Description
content: What would it be like to care for an infant that was also your boss?
label: Description
content: Clearly they were workers. The photographs make their work invisible.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: Children
label: Subject
content: Girls
label: Subject
content: African American
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content: Work and Industry: Photographic History
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content: Photography
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2018.3115.0001
label: catalog number
content: 2018.3115.0001
label: nonaccession number
content: 2018.3115
objectType: label: Object Name
content: mounted photograph
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: silver gel (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: gelatin silver print (overall production method/technique)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 26.6 cm x 13.3 cm; 10 15/32 in x 5 1/4 in