Object Details
- Description
- 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.
- Data Source
- National Museum of African American History and Culture
- Photograph by
- Frank Espada, Puerto Rican, 1930 - 2014
- Subject of
- Unidentified Woman or Women
- Unidentified Child or Children
- Date
- 1981
- Credit Line
- Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture purchased with funds provided by the Smithsonian Latino Initiatives Pool, administered by the Smithsonian Latino Center
- Medium
- silver and photographic gelatin on photographic paper
- Dimensions
- H x W: 11 × 14 in. (27.9 × 35.6 cm)
- Type
- gelatin silver prints
- portraits
