Flour mill in Minneapolis, Minnesota. September 1941.
Child of migratory packinghouse workers. Belle Glade, Florida, 1939 Child of packinghouse workers from Tennessee getting water...
Main street, showing barber shop in Negro section. Homestead, Florida. 1939 Jan.
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Photo by Marion Post Wolcott, Farm Security Administration [shorpy.com]
Sunday Afternoon in New Orleans, January 1941, Marion Post Wolcott
Medium format negative by Marion Post Wolcott for the Farm Security Administration. [shorpy.com]
“I sat there listening to “We Shall Overcome,” looking out of the window at the passing Mississippi landscape.” ― Anne Moody, Coming of Age in Mississippi: The Classic Autobiography of a Young Black Girl in the Rural South Marion Post (June 7, 1910 – November 24, 1990), later Marion Post Wolcott, worked for … Continue reading "Life On Mississippi Delta Plantations By Marion Post Walcott – c.1939"
Boy scouts inspecting and learning about Army equipment in Commerce Square, Washington, D.C. Contributor Names Wolcott, Marion Post, 1910-1990, photographer Created / Published 1941 July. Wolcott, Marion Post, photographer. Boy scouts inspecting and learning about Army equipment in Commerce Square, Washington, D.C. July. Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress,
During the Great Depression, the Farm Security Administration dispatched photographers across the United States to document poverty. In West Virginia, Marion Post Wolcott and Ben Shahn Marion depicted the hardscrabble life of coal miners in their photos.
[Untitled photo, possibly related to: Rodney, Mississippi] Contributor Names Wolcott, Marion Post, 1910-1990, photographer Created / Published 1940 July. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2017804232/.
[Untitled photo, possibly related to: Rodney, Mississippi] Contributor Names Wolcott, Marion Post, 1910-1990, photographer Created / Published 1940 Aug. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2017804227/.
August 1940. "Port Gibson, Mississippi." The Dreamboat Inn, whose signage advertises anti-malarial tonics and two kinds of cola. Medium format negative by Marion Post Wolcott for the Resettlement Administration (Shorpy photos)
Digital ID: 1260039. Shooting pool on Saturday afternoon, Clarksdale, Mississippi Delta November 1939.. Wolcott, Marion Post -- Photographer. November 1939 Notes: Original negative #: 52481-D; Schomburg copy negative #: SC-CN-00-037 Source: Farm Security Administration Collection. / Mississippi. / Marion Post Wolcott. (more info) Repository: The New York Public Library. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Photographs and Prints Division. See more information about this image and others at NYPL Digital Gallery. Persistent URL: digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/id?1260039 Rights Info: No known copyright restrictions; may be subject to third party rights (for more information, click here)
Sunday school picnic brought into abandoned mining town of Jere, West Virginia by neighboring parishoners, 1938. Contributor Names Marion Post Wolcott, 1910-1990, photographer Created / Published 1938 Sept. Repository Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/2017799333/.
Hot lunches for children of agricultural workers in day nursery of Okeechobee, Migratory Labor camp. Belle Glade, Florida. by Marion Post Wolcott. Search the Smithsonian American Art museum collection, one of the world's largest and most inclusive collections of art made in the United States.
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20th century and contemporary photography including: Berenice Abbott, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Larry Fink, Lynn Geesaman, Kenneth Josephson, Nadav Kander, Yousuf Karsh, Andre Kertesz, Masatomo Kuriya, Robert Mapplethorpe, Lisette Model, Andrew Moore, Eliot Porter, Marion Post Wolcott, Sebastiao Salgado, Julius Shulman, Sharon Core, Jared Bark, Mary Ellen Bartley.
20th century and contemporary photography including: Berenice Abbott, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Larry Fink, Lynn Geesaman, Kenneth Josephson, Nadav Kander, Yousuf Karsh, Andre Kertesz, Masatomo Kuriya, Robert Mapplethorpe, Lisette Model, Andrew Moore, Eliot Porter, Marion Post Wolcott, Sebastiao Salgado, Julius Shulman, Sharon Core, Jared Bark, Mary Ellen Bartley.
20th century and contemporary photography including: Berenice Abbott, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Larry Fink, Lynn Geesaman, Kenneth Josephson, Nadav Kander, Yousuf Karsh, Andre Kertesz, Masatomo Kuriya, Robert Mapplethorpe, Lisette Model, Andrew Moore, Eliot Porter, Marion Post Wolcott, Sebastiao Salgado, Julius Shulman, Sharon Core, Jared Bark, Mary Ellen Bartley.
