Motherhood
South African Photo and Stereo Company (SAPSCO), Johannesburg
early 20th century
Photo offset lithograph postcard
Overall: 5 3/8 x 3 7/16 in. (13.6 x 8.7 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College: Purchased through the Hood Museum of Art Acquisitions Fund
2006.18.28
Geography/Culture
Africa, Southern Africa, South Africa
Period
20th century
Object Name
Photograph: Postcard
Classification
Photograph
Not on view
Inscription
Printed, in white ink, lower left: Motherhood.; printed, in white ink, lower right: COPYRIGHT / R. 17 - R; printed, in brown ink, on reverse, lower left: "SAPSCO" Real Photo, Box 5792, Johannesburg; printed, in brown in, on reverse, upper left: For Inland Postage and some Foreign / Countries this space may now be used / for communication.; printed, in brown ink, on reverse, upper right: The Address only to be Written Here
Course History
ANTH 3, Introduction to Cultural Anthropology, Chelsey Kivland, Winter 2015
ANTH 3, Introduction to Cultural Anthropology, Chelsey Kivland, Winter 2015
HIST 66, AAAS 15, History of Africa since 1800, Naaborko Sackeyfio, Spring 2013
HIST 7.2, Harem: European Imaginations and Ottoman Realities, Zeynep Turkyilmaz, Katherine Hart, Amelia Kahl, Spring 2012
Exhibition History
Made in the Middle: Constructing Black Identities across the African Diaspora, Introduction to Cultural Anthropology, Anthropology 3, Winter 2015, Chelsey Kivland, Teaching Exhibition, Ivan Albright Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, November 15, 2014-March 15,2015.
Black Womanhood: Images, Icons, and Ideologies of the African Body, Owen Robertson Cheatham Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, April 1-August 10, 2008; Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley College, Wellesley, Massachusetts, September 10-December 10, 2008; San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, California, January 21-April 26, 2009.
Publication History
Barbara Thompson, Black Womanhood: Images, Icons, and Ideologies of the African Body, Seattle: University of Washington Press [Hanover: Trustees of Dartmouth College], 2008, p. 212, plate 79.
Provenance
Alexandre Przopiorski, Lyon, France; sold to present collection, 2006.
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