Young boys waiting in the plantation store to be paid off for picking cotton. Marcella plantation, Mileston, Mississippi.

Young boys waiting in the plantation store to be paid off for picking cotton. Marcella plantation, Mileston, Mississippi.

Photograph

Marion Post Wolcott

Maker
American, 1910–1990

Young boys waiting in the plantation store to be paid off for picking cotton. Marcella plantation, Mileston, Mississippi.

1939
Gelatin silver print, printed 1977
Image: 9 5/8 × 8 9/16 in. (24.5 × 21.7 cm)
Paper: 13 7/8 × 10 7/8 in. (35.3 × 27.6 cm)
Gift of the photographer
1980.0782.0003
Inscriptions Signature inscribed in pencil on recto BR: Marion Post Wolcott
Inscribed in pencil on verso TC: Young boys waiting in the plantation store to be \ paid off for picking cotton. Marcella plantation. \ Mileston, Miss. \ Photographed for FSA 1939 \ Printed by MPW 1977 \ Selenium toned MPW 1977
Inscribed in pencil on verso C: 522SOD
Signature inscribed in pencil on verso BC: Marion Post Wolcott \ Marion Post Wolcott

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