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Coalminer's Children, Charleston, West Virginia by Marion Post Wolcott — VisualArtsDB

Coalminer's Children, Charleston, West Virginia

Coalminer's Children, Charleston, West Virginia

Marion Post Wolcott

1938

Medium: Gelatin silver print
Dimensions: Image: 21.2 × 28.7 cm (8 3/8 × 11 5/16 in.); Paper: 27.8 × 35.4 cm (11 × 13 15/16 in.)
Genre: gelatin silver (developing-out-paper) pr
Museum: Art Institute of Chicago

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portraits: child subjectdocumentaryphotographic techniquesphotographyphotographic processesblack-and-white photographygelatin silver (developing-out-paper) prphotographportraits: multiple subjectsphotographic processphotographic paperdocumentariesportraits

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Union Members Waiting for the Strike-Breaking Scabs to Come out of the Copper Mines, Ducktown, Tennessee

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Baptism of members of Primitive Baptist Church, in Triplett Creek, Rowan County, near Morehead, Kentucky

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Migrant Pickers Playing Checkers After a Freeze-Out in the Vegetable Growing Area near Lake Okeechenobee, Homestead, Florida

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Negro Day Laborers, Marcella Plantation, Milestone, Mississippi Delta

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Making Biscuits for Dinner on Corn Husking Day, the Fred Wilkens Farm, near Tallyho, North Carolina

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Tenant Farmer's Children, Younger One with Rickets from Malnutrition. Eroded Land the Result of Tobacco-Cotton Weevel. Wadesboro, North Carolina

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Taking a rest from hoeing cotton, on the Allen Plantation, Natchitoches, Louisiana; An FSA Co-op

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Mr. R.B. Whitley in his general store, Wendell, North Carolina. (He also owns a cotton exchange, real estate and is president of the bank)

Mr. R.B. Whitley in his general store, Wendell, North Carolina. (He also owns a cotton exchange, real estate and is president of the bank)

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Negro man entering a movie theatre by outside stairway "For Colored Only" in the Delta area, Belzoni, Mississippi

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Migrant Agricultural workers camping out in cane bush near Homestead, Fla. One of the women said, "we ain't never lived like hogs before, but we sure does now."

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