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Packing House Workers' or Pickers' (Migrants) Child in Entrance to Shack. They Must Clear Land, Pay $5 a Month, No Sanitary Facilities or Lights, Water Must Be Hauled Some Distance. Near Belle Glade, Fla.

Marion Post Wolcott (1910-1990)

Object Details

  • Date

    1939, printed 1978

  • Object Type

    Photographs

  • Medium

    Gelatin silver print

  • Dimensions

    Image: 8 1/4 x 11 1/4 in.
    Sheet: 11 x 13 15/16 in.

  • Inscriptions

    Verso:

    u.l. to u.r. in graphite: Packing house workers' or pickers' (migrants) child in entrance to \ shack. They must clear land, pay $5 a month, no sanitary facilities \ or lights, water must be hauled some distance. Near Belle Glade, Fla. \ 1939 \ Photographed for FSA by MPW \ Archivally printed by MPW 1978

    c. in graphite: 51159 D

    l.r. signed in graphite: Marion Post Wolcott

  • Credit Line

    Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, Texas, Gift of Dr. John Wolcott, Los Alamos, New Mexico

  • Accession Number

    P1983.35.15

  • Copyright

    Public domain

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