Marion Post Wolcott
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Marion Post Wolcott was an American photographer who worked for the Farm Security Administration during the Great Depression, documenting poverty, the Jim Crow South, and deprivation.
Wolcott in 1940
Post Wolcott, Kentucky, February 1940.
Post Wolcott with Rolleiflex and Speed Graphic in hand in Montgomery County, Maryland
African American children from Wadesboro, North Carolina, 1938.
Farm Security Administration
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The Farm Security Administration (FSA) was a New Deal agency created in 1937 to combat rural poverty during the Great Depression in the United States. It succeeded the Resettlement Administration (1935–1937).
Walker Evans portrait of Allie Mae Burroughs (1936)
Arthur Rothstein photograph "Dust Bowl Cimarron County, Oklahoma" of a farmer and two sons during a dust storm in Cimarron County, Oklahoma (1936)
John Collier Jr.
Jack Delano