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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2.2002.1572
People
Marion Post Wolcott, American (Montclair, New Jersey 1910 - 1990 Santa Barbara, California)
Title
Cashiers Paying Off Cotton Pickers, Marcella Plantation, 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/157798

Physical Descriptions

Technique
Gelatin silver print
Dimensions
image: 22.5 x 30.2 cm (8 7/8 x 11 7/8 in.)
sheet: 27.7 x 35.3 cm (10 7/8 x 13 7/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: verso, below center, in graphite: Marion Post Wolcott
  • inscription: verso, above center, in graphite: Cashiers Paying Off Cotton Pickers, Marcella Plantation, Mileston, Mississippi
    1939
    Archivally processed
    Selenium toned
    52908-D

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
2.2002.1572
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Colleen Walsh, "Taking it all personally: Carpenter Center show reflects racial disparities that helped fuel James Baldwin's writing", Harvard Gazette (Cambridge, MA, 2018)

Exhibition History

  • Photography and Social Change in James Baldwin’s America, Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Cambridge, 09/13/2018 - 12/30/2018

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