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Marion Post Wolcott
Rickets, Tenant Farmer's children, Wadesboro, NC, 1938
gelatin silver print10 x 9 in. (25.4 x 22.86 cm)
Gift of Thomas D. and Barbara C. Peckenpaugh
© Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information photograph collection Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C.
Marion Post Wolcott (American, 1910-1990)
Marion Post Wolcott’s magnificent images of rural America in the 1930s are among the treasures of American photography. Born in Montclair, New Jersey in 1910, Wolcott studied at the New School for Social Research in New York, and later child psychology in Vienna in 1933. In the 1930s she attended the Photo League in New York and began free-lance photography. After a brief job working for the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin she was hired by Roy Stryker to photograph for Farm Security Administration (FSA) from 1938-41 where she worked in the South, New England, and the West. In 1941 she married widower Lee Wolcott, retiring her professional life to raise a family. Wolcott died in 1990 in Santa Barbara.
