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Untitled (Timing Contractions)

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 two (2) women, one seated and one standing over the other. Both women stand in a room with a mantel and stove on the left side, a crib behind them up against the far wall as well as a door on the right. The stove can be seen in the lower left corner with the mantel extending up the left side of the image. On the mantel are picture frames and knickknacks. Behind the women is a white crib standing in front of a curtained window with the shade drawn. To the right of the window, along the right side of the image is a door that also has a window with the shade drawn. The two (2) women are in the lower half of the image. The woman on the left is pregnant and seated in a chair and wears a terry cloth robe and a hair wrap.

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Catalog reference: 2009.1.38

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