Object Details
- Description
- Black and white image of women's hands. On the left side of the image is one pair of hands with the person holding a packet of cotton swabs, center, in their proper left hand. The person's proper left hand is rests on the finial of a chair back. In the upper right of the image is an arm reaching down, grabbing a swab from the packet. The person's forearm is bare with a sleeve cuff seen at her elbow. Behind, in the background, is a table with dishes and a pot on top. The lower right of the image is in shadow.
- Data Source
- National Museum of African American History and Culture
- Photograph by
- Robert Galbraith, American, 1919 - 2015
- Printed by
- Igor Bakht, born 1928
- Subject of
- Mary Francis Hill Coley, American, 1900 - 1966
- Date
- 1952; printed 2005
- Credit Line
- Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Robert Galbraith
- Medium
- silver and photographic gelatin on photographic paper
- Dimensions
- H x W (Image): 14 1/2 x 19 in. (36.8 x 48.3 cm)
- H x W (Sheet): 16 x 20 in. (40.6 x 50.8 cm)
- Type
- gelatin silver prints
