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Untitled (Midwife at Window)

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 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 camera. She is bending slightly at the waist to look out a window and moves the sheer polka dotted curtains out of the way with her proper right hand. She stands in the left two-thirds of the image with the window in the right third of the image. The walls in the background are horizontally paneled and painted a light color.

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Catalog metadata · CC0 · Source checked 2026-10-13

Catalog reference: 2009.1.42

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