Marion Post Wolcott West Virginia Coal Miner Photograph
$3,500.00
Coal miner returning from work with pick over shoulder. The “Patch,” Chaplin, West Virginia, Marion Post Wolcott, 1910-1990, photographer – original negative 1938 Sept. Farm Security Administration – Gelatin silver print FSA Photograph
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Shop this West Virginia Coal Miner Photograph by FSA photographer Marion Post Wolcott, 1910-1990. This original gelatin silver print photograph formally entitled “Coal miner returning from work with pick over shoulder. The “Patch,” Chaplin, West Virginia,” is cataloged in the Library of Congress as LC-USF33-030208-M4 (b&w film nitrate neg.) LC-DIG-fsa-8a39383 (digital file from original neg.) Part of the Farm Security Administration’s collection – Office of War Information Photograph Collection (Library of Congress). Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, DC 20540.
The sheets reverse with a Library of Congress hand stamp on the verso. The original photograph negative dated to September of 1938. This photograph dates to the 1960s. The back of the sheet with pencil notations, inscribed, and with Wolcott’s signature, title, negative date, and with inventory and printing notations, in pencil, on verso, as “Sep ’38 M.P. Wolcott, Miner Chaplin West Virginia. The black and white photograph depicting a coal miner walking down a railroad track holding a pickax and covered in soot. The image taken by Wolcott represents a more extensive portfolio of images taken during her assignment in West Virginia, highlighting the plight of rural Americans after the great depression.
The sheets reverse with a Library of Congress hand stamp on the verso. The original photograph negative dated to September of 1938. This photograph dates to the 1960s. The back of the sheet with pencil notations, inscribed, and with Wolcott’s signature, title, negative date, and with inventory and printing notations, in pencil, on verso, as “Sep ’38 M.P. Wolcott, Miner Chaplin West Virginia. The black and white photograph depicting a coal miner walking down a railroad track holding a pickax and covered in soot. The image taken by Wolcott represents a more extensive portfolio of images taken during her assignment in West Virginia, highlighting the plight of rural Americans after the great depression.
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The photograph measures 8 x 10 inches. The image measures 6.50 x 9.50 inches.
Condition
The photograph displays circular edge loss to the top margin edges. The photograph surface displays minor abrasions and surface imperfections with markings and pencil notations on the sheet’s reverse.
