Black and white image of Martha Sapp and a baby lying in bed, while a man and another child stand near them. Sapp lays in bed, covered with a geometric patterned quilt and blankets. The quilt and blankets take up the bottom half of the image. Sapp's face…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2009.1.20
Black and white image of a woman and baby lying in bed, over seen by a man and another child. The woman lays in bed, covered with a geometric patterned quilt and blankets. The quilt and blankets take up the bottom half of the image. The woman's face and…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2009.1.37
Black and white image of a man and two (2) children gathering wood. The three (3) are in a scrap wood pile with varying types of wood and sizes. In the left lower portion of the image is a young girl holding wood scraps in her arms. She is seen looking to…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2009.1.14
Black and white image of two (2) women sitting and reading a booklet. The women are seated in front of tiled, white wainscoting, with the top row existing of narrow dark rectangular tile. Resting above the tile, in the upper left corner is a sign with…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2009.1.24
Black and white image of two (2) women sitting and reading a booklet. The women are seated in front of tiled, white wainscoting, with the top row existing of narrow dark rectangular tile. Resting above the tile, in the upper left corner is a sign with…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2009.1.35
Black and white image of Martha Sapp giving birth. On the right hand of the image are a pair of bare legs splayed out, knees bent. Sapp wears white socks. On the bed in front of Sapp is a baby crying, covered in afterbirth. The umbilical cord of the baby…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2009.1.7
Black and white image of Mary Coley and Martha Sapp. Sapp stands with her proper right knee resting on a chair seat. Coley stands, out of focus on the right side of the image, and irons. The women stand near a whitewashed, cement block wall on which hang…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2009.1.27
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…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2009.1.1
Black and white image of Martha Sapp walking near the end of a bed, while in the background, Mary Coley bends down away from the camera. Sapp, standing, wears a terry cloth robe and a head scarf. She is seen in profile with her proper left hand grasping…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2009.1.16
Black and white image of a crowd of seated people, highlighting the woman in the foreground, left of center, wiping her forehead. The featured woman wears a light-colored dress with a brooch pinned to her proper left side of her bust. Her eyes are closed…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2009.1.33
Black and white image of a woman standing near a window. Woman wears a pin-striped dress with short sleeves. She also wears a dark colored had perched on the back of her head. The woman stands in three-quarter view with her proper right side facing the…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2009.1.42
Black and white image of porch fronts on a street with Mary Coley and Martha Sapp standing on a porch in the mid-ground. The image is captured from the porch of a house next to the one the women are visiting. A column from the porch can be seen on the…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2009.1.25
Black and white image of Mary Coley and Martha Sapp walking adjacent to the camera down a dirt street lined with houses. The woman on the left, Mary Coley, wears a light-colored dress and jacket with dark shoes and hat. She carries a bag, obscured by her…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2009.1.23
Black and white image of two (2) women walking adjacent to the camera down a dirt street lined with houses. The woman on the left, in the left third of the image, wears a light-colored dress and jacket with dark shoes and hat. She carries a bag, obscured…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2009.1.44
Black and white image of several rows of women seated, all wearing midwife uniforms. In the foreground are two (2) women talking with one another. Both are wearing white aprons and white nurses' caps. The woman on the left holds a black purse in her lap…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2009.1.28
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…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2009.1.3
Black and white image of a woman, Mary Francis Hill Coley, bathing a baby. Coley, seated center, holds a small baby in her lap with her left hand while her right hand sponges the baby clean. In her lap is towel. She wears a dark colored dress with a white,…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2009.1.5
Black and white image of two (2) women, one seated on a bed and the other standing and bent over the torso of the seated woman. The standing woman, Mary Francis Hill Coley, on the left side of the image, wears a light-colored dress with white cuffs on her…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2009.1.15
Black and white image of Mary Coley and Martha Sapp arranging items on a bed. On the left side of the image Sapp, seen in profile, wearing a plaid patterned dress. She is seen smiling at the other woman as her proper right side faces the camera. Her hands…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2009.1.26
Black and white image of Mary Coley and Martha Sapp. Coley is assisting in the birthing of Sapp. Coley on the left, stands over Sapp who is lying in bed. Coley wears a nurses' cap, light-colored smock and a towel over her proper left shoulder. She pulls up…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2009.1.9
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…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2009.1.12
Black and white image of a woman scrubbing her hands. All that is seen of the woman is her torso, arms, and hands. Her hands are in the lower half of the image and in her proper right hand is a small bush. The woman uses the brush to scrub the ring finger…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2009.1.18
Black and white image of Mary Coley, Martha Sapp, and a small baby. In the lower right corner Martha Sapp is laying in bed. She looks away from the camera at Mary Coley seated to her right. Coley is on the left side of the image, looks at the woman in bed…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2009.1.6
Black and white image of a family in the kitchen. Mary Francis Hill Coley stands in the center, scraping a plate. She wears a paisley printed blouse and a light-colored apron. Behind Coley an older woman stands, wearing a dark shirt with a light-colored…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2009.1.2
