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September 1938. "House, Negro and white section, Charleston, West Virginia." 35mm nitrate negative by Marion Post Wolcott. View full size.
August 1940. "Natchez, Mississippi, grocery window." Illustrating the gradual accretion of soft-drink signage on retail stores like barnacles on the hull of a ship. Medium format negative by Marion Post Wolcott. View full size.
December 1938. "Negro home near Charleston, South Carolina." The little gunslinger wearing a "Buck Jones" cowboy outfit. Medium format negative by Marion Post Wolcott for the Resettlement Administration. View full size.
December 1938. "Church graveyard near Summerville, South Carolina." Photo by Marion Post Wolcott for the Resettlement Administration. View full size.
September 1938. "Wife of unemployed coal miner, suffering from T.B., with her mother and children. Family living in old company store. Abandoned mining town of Marine, West Virginia." Photo by Marion Post Wolcott. View full size.
September 1938. "Mother-in-law of unemployed coal miner and his child. Marine, West Virginia." Photo by Marion Post Wolcott. View full size.
September 1938. "Coal miner's child breaking up large pieces of coal to take home. Pursglove, Scott's Run, West Virginia." Photo by Marion Post Wolcott for the Resettlement Administration. View full size.
January 1941. "Sarasota, Florida, trailer park. Students coming from school in the afternoon." Medium format negative by Marion Post Wolcott. View full size.
January 1941. "Starke, Florida. Family of construction worker who had been employed on Camp Blanding job." Medium format negative by Marion Post Wolcott for the Resettlement Administration. View full size.
August 1941. "Cowboy and horse at the Quarter Circle U, Brewster-Arnold Ranch Co. Birney, Montana." Our second visit with this sweater-wearing wrangler. Photo by Marion Post Wolcott for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
August 1941. "Cowboy in the corral at Quarter Circle U, Brewster-Arnold Ranch Company. Birney, Montana." Photo by Marion Post Wolcott. View full size.
August 1941. "Dude from Quarter Circle U Ranch on a picnic on Lyman Brewster's lease. Near Lame Deer, Montana." Photo by Marion Post Wolcott. View full size.
January 1941. "Trailer park in Sarasota, Florida." A baby bungalow nestled in nasturtiums. Photo by Marion Post Wolcott. View full size.
August 1941. "Main Street. Sheridan, Wyoming." An oasis of Western watering holes. Medium format negative by Marion Post Wolcott. View full size.
January 1941. "Playing outside trailer home in Sarasota, Fla., trailer park." Medium format negative by Marion Post Wolcott. View full size.