- Identification and Creation
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- Object Number
- 2.2002.1575
- People
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Marion Post Wolcott, American (Montclair, New Jersey 1910 - 1990 Santa Barbara, California)
- Title
- Negro using outside colored stairway to enter movie theatre, Belzoni, Missisissippi
- Other Titles
- Former Title: "Negro" using outside "colored" stairway to enter movie theatre, Belzoni, Missisissippi
- Classification
- Photographs
- Work Type
- photograph
- Date
- 1939, printed later
- Places
- Creation Place: North America, United States, Mississippi
- Culture
- American
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/157378
- Physical Descriptions
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- Technique
- Gelatin silver print
- Dimensions
- 22.2 x 29.8 cm (8 3/4 x 11 3/4 in.)
sheet: 27.8 x 35.4 cm (10 15/16 x 13 15/16 in.) - Inscriptions and Marks
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- Signed: verso, b. center in graphite: Marion Post Wolcott
- inscription: Yes, verso, top center, graphite, signed, in artist's hand: "Negro" using outside "colored" stairway to enter movie theatre [over] Belzoni, Miss. [over] 1939 [over] Archivally processed [over] Selenium toned [over] 30577M-2 [over] Marion Post Wolcott
- Acquisition and Rights
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- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Transfer from the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Gift of Wolcott Community Management
- Accession Year
- 2011
- Object Number
- 2.2002.1575
- Division
- Modern and Contemporary Art
- Contact
- am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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- Exhibition History
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A New Kind of Historical Evidence: Photographs from The Carpenter Center Collection, Harvard University Art Museums, Fogg Art Museum, 08/06/2005 - 10/30/2005
Vision and Justice: The Art of Citizenship, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 08/27/2016 - 01/08/2017
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