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September 1938. "Homemade caned furniture in bedroom of coal miner's home. A company house. Pursglove, Scotts Run, West Virginia." Medium format negative by Marion Post Wolcott for the Resettlement Administration. View full size.
September 1938. "Coal miner's wife and three of their children. Company house in Pursglove, Scotts Run, West Virginia." Medium format negative by Marion Post Wolcott for the Resettlement Administration. View full size.
September 1938. Chaplin, West Virginia. "Miner who has worked in mines since he was 14 and has tried to save money and have a better home, with his wife, suffering from bad bronchial condition and asthma." Plus Junior underfoot. Photo by Marion Post Wolcott for the Resettlement Administration. View full size.
June 1940. "Melrose, Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana. Mulattoes' home on Melrose cotton plantation owned by John Henry." Medium format nitrate negative by Marion Post Wolcott for the Resettlement Administration. View full size.
June 1940. "Melrose, Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana. Son of one of the mulattoes working on the John Henry plantation." Medium format nitrate negative by Marion Post Wolcott for the Resettlement Administration. View full size.
August 1940. "Farmer playing guitar on the porch in the evening. Near Natchitoches, Louisiana." Medium format nitrate negative by Marion Post Wolcott for the Resettlement Administration. View full size.
January 1939. "Store and 'juke joint' in Negro section of Homestead, Florida." Medium format negative by Marion Post Wolcott. View full size.
September 1939. "Copper mining and sulfuric acid plant at Copperhill, Tennessee." Medium format negative by Marion Post Wolcott. View full size.
February 1939. "Migrant laborers' camp near Canal Point, Florida. In foreground is a bean hamper which they use to sit on and they call a 'muck rocker.' Some of them are from Missouri and Arkansas." Medium format negative by Marion Post Wolcott for the Resettlement Administration. View full size.
January 1939. "Typical Florida country near Moore Haven." Or should that be Moo Haven? Medium format negative by Marion Post Wolcott. View full size.
August 1940. "Fenceposts on King and Anderson Plantation, Clarksdale, Mississippi Delta, Mississippi." Medium format negative by Marion Post Wolcott for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
September 1939. "A grey day in New York City, looking northeast from University Place." Medium format acetate negative by Marion Post Wolcott. View full size.
September 1938. Capels, West Virginia. "Coal miner waiting for lift home." Last seen here, six years ago. Photo by Marion Post Wolcott. View full size.
August 1940. "Port Gibson, Mississippi." Habitues of the Dreamboat Inn, last seen here. Medium format negative by Marion Post Wolcott. View full size.
September 1938. "Storefront in mining town of Osage, West Virginia." Photo by Marion Post Wolcott for the Resettlement Administration. View full size.