A Grandmother with Baby

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This description refers to material held by Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Visual details below describe the original material.

A silver gelatin print depicting a black-and-white image of a grandmother holding a baby outside of a home in Puerto Rico. The grandmother is wearing a light-colored shirt with a towel draped over her proper left shoulder. She is holding the baby close to her chest, with her proper left arm cradling the baby from the bottom and her proper right hand supporting the baby’s head close to her chest. The grandmother’s head is slightly angled down looking past the baby. On her proper right hand, she is wearing a band on her ring finger. The baby has their proper right ear pierced and is dressed in a light color shirt with only a diaper on. There are no inscriptions on the front of the photograph and an alpha-numerical inscription on the back.

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