Marion Post Wolcott
Mexican Coal Miner and Child, West Virginia

Mexican Coal Miner and Child, West Virginia

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Mexican Coal Miner and Child, West Virginia
ArtistAmerican, 1910–1990
CultureAmerican
Titles
  • Mexican Coal Miner and Child, West Virginia
Date1938
Place depictedWest Virginia, United States
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 8 × 10 7/8 in. (20.3 × 27.6 cm)
 Sheet: 10 7/8 × 13 15/16 in. (27.6 × 35.4 cm)
Credit LineGift of Arthur Rothstein
Object number79.230
Non exposé

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Department
Photography
Object Type
ProvenanceArthur Rothstein; given to MFAH, 1979.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
verso top left in pencil "Mexican coal miner & child, W.Va. / Photographed for FSA 1938 / Printed by Marion Post Wolcott 1978 / Selenium Toned 1978"
center in pencil "30196M2"
top left corner "ST"
verso lower right in pencil "Marion Post Wolcott"

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Gelatin silver print
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1940
Gelatin silver print
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Gelatin silver print
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1939
Gelatin silver print
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November 1939
Gelatin silver print
2001.170
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Children of tenant farmer, younger one with severe rickets, from malnourishment. Land worn out from cotton-tobacco culture, near Wadesboro, North Carolina
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Gelatin silver print
79.233
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Migrant Vegetable Picker's and Packing House Worker's Quarters, Pahokee Hotel, near Belle Glade, Florida
1939
Gelatin silver print
79.234
Young boys waiting to be paid off for picking cotton, Marcella plantation store, Mileston, Mississippi
Marion Post Wolcott
Young boys waiting to be paid off for picking cotton, Marcella plantation store, Mileston, Mississippi
1939, printed 1978
Gelatin silver print
79.235