Negro day laborers brought in by truck from nearby towns, waiting to be paid off for cotton picking and to buy supplies inside plantation store, Friday night, Marcella Plantation, Mileston, Mississippi Delta Mississippi, October 1939
Marion Post Wolcott
(American, 1910–1990)
1939
Medium/TechniquePhotograph, gelatin silver print
DimensionsSheet: 23.8 × 16.5 cm (9 3/8 × 6 1/2 in.)
Credit LineThe Howard Greenberg Collection—Museum purchase with funds donated by the Phillip Leonian and Edith Rosenbaum Leonian Charitable Trust
Accession number2018.3512
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Provenance2018, sold by Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York, to the MFA. (Accession Date: June 19, 2018)
Marion Post Wolcott