Sewing a quilt. Gees Bend, Alabama [Lucy Mooney] – (Arthur Rothstein) ◄ Previous Next ►

Artist: Arthur Rothstein

Date: 1937

Museum: Souls Grown Deep (Atlanta, United States)

Technique: Photograph

When Adrian Van de Graaff of Tuscaloosa, Alabama, bought the Pettway estate in 1900, he installed a relative, W. C. Travis, as overseer. Needom Mooney and his wife, Lucy (c. 1880 - 1969), worked as domestic servants at Sandy Hill, the former plantation house, where Travis lived until his death in 1916. When Arthur Rothstein photographed Gee