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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2.2002.1578
People
Marion Post Wolcott, American (Montclair, New Jersey 1910 - 1990 Santa Barbara, California)
Title
Young Cotton Pickers Waiting to be Paid in Marcella Plantation Store, Mileston, Mississippi
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/157774

Physical Descriptions

Technique
Gelatin silver print
Dimensions
image: 24.1 x 20.8 cm (9 1/2 x 8 3/16 in.)
sheet: 29.6 x 26.5 cm (11 5/8 x 10 7/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: verso, lower edge, in graphite: Marion Post Wolcott
  • inscription: verso, above center, in graphite: Young Cotton Pickers Waiting to be Paid in Marcella Plantation Store, Mileston, Mississippi, 1939
    Archivally processed
    Selenium toned
    52250D

Acquisition and Rights

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
2.2002.1578
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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