Museum object · Photographs and Still Images
Untitled
1952; printed 2005
Albany, Dougherty County, Georgia, United States, North and Central America
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 arranging items on a bed. On the left side of the image is a woman, seen in profile, wearing a plaid patterned dress. She is seen smiling as her proper right side faces the camera. Her hands are resting on the edge of the bed frame. The other woman stands center, in the upper half of the image arranging folded items of clothing on a bed. She wears a pin striped dress with short sleeves. She also wears a dark colored hat perched on the back of her head. Hanging off her proper right shoulder hangs a white cloth. In front of the women on the bed, in the lower half of the image, are stacks of cloths, towels, and other unidentified pieces of clothing. The bed is covered in a light-colored Irish Chain quilt.
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Catalog reference: 2009.1.40
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