Marion Palfi
Paradise Valley

Paradise Valley
ArtistAmerican, born Germany, 1907–1978
CultureAmerican
Titles
  • Paradise Valley
  • from the series Suffer Little Children
Date1946–1949
PlaceDetroit, Michigan, United States
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage/Sheet:7 7/8 × 9 11/16 in. (20.1 × 24.6 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by the Mundy Companies
Object number81.57
Not on view

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Department
Photography
Object Type
Provenance[Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, New York]; purchased by MFAH, 1981.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Xerox of the back of photograph is on file in Registration.

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Image Not Available for Untitled (three black girls in Washington)
Marion Palfi
Untitled (three black girls in Washington)
c. 1979
Gelatin silver print
91.1595.15
Transportation for Hepcats, Louisville, Kentucky
Marion Post Wolcott
Transportation for Hepcats, Louisville, Kentucky
1940
Gelatin silver print
79.241
Mexican Coal Miner and Child, West Virginia
Marion Post Wolcott
Mexican Coal Miner and Child, West Virginia
1938
Gelatin silver print
79.230
Coal Miner's Child Carrying Home Can of Kerosene, Scotts Run, West Virginia. Company Owned Houses
Marion Post Wolcott
Coal Miner's Child Carrying Home Can of Kerosene, Scotts Run, West Virginia. Company Owned Houses
1938
Gelatin silver print
79.231
Children of tenant farmer, younger one with severe rickets, from malnourishment. Land worn out from cotton-tobacco culture, near Wadesboro, North Carolina
Marion Post Wolcott
Children of tenant farmer, younger one with severe rickets, from malnourishment. Land worn out from cotton-tobacco culture, near Wadesboro, North Carolina
December 1938, printed 1977
Gelatin silver print
79.233
Migrant Vegetable Picker's and Packing House Worker's Quarters, Pahokee Hotel, near Belle Glade, Florida
Marion Post Wolcott
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
Satterfield Tobacco Warehouse, All Night Cafe. Durham, North Carolina
Marion Post Wolcott
Satterfield Tobacco Warehouse, All Night Cafe. Durham, North Carolina
1939
Gelatin silver print
79.236
Father of Muskrat Trapper, in Doorway of Shack on Bayou. Trapper was an FSA Client (Borrower)
Marion Post Wolcott
Father of Muskrat Trapper, in Doorway of Shack on Bayou. Trapper was an FSA Client (Borrower)
1940
Gelatin silver print
79.237
Buyers and Sellers Waiting Outside Entrance to Auction House, Montgomery, Alabama
Marion Post Wolcott
Buyers and Sellers Waiting Outside Entrance to Auction House, Montgomery, Alabama
1940
Gelatin silver print
79.238
Main Street, Brattleboro, Vermont, during Blizzard
Marion Post Wolcott
Main Street, Brattleboro, Vermont, during Blizzard
1940
Gelatin silver print
79.239
Corn Shucks and Rail Fence near Marion, West Virginia
Marion Post Wolcott
Corn Shucks and Rail Fence near Marion, West Virginia
1940
Gelatin silver print
79.240