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Migrant Pickers Playing Checkers After a Freeze-Out in the Vegetable Growing Area near Lake Okeechenobee, Homestead, Florida

A work made of gelatin silver print.

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  • A work made of gelatin silver print.

Date:

1939

Artist:

Marion Post Wolcott
American, 1910–1990

About this artwork

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Photography and Media

Artist

Marion Post Wolcott

Title

Migrant Pickers Playing Checkers After a Freeze-Out in the Vegetable Growing Area near Lake Okeechenobee, Homestead, Florida

Place

United States (Artist's nationality:)

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Made 1939

Medium

Gelatin silver print

Inscriptions

Unmarked recto; inscribed verso, upper left-right, in graphite: "Migrant pickers playing checkers after freeze-out in the vegetable / growing area near Lake Okeechobee, Flo. 1939 (Homestead, Flo.)"; verso, upper center, in graphite: "Archivally printed"; verso, center, in graphite: "57106-D"; verso, lower right, in graphite: "Marion Post Wolcott"

Dimensions

Image: 21.1 × 28.4 cm (8 5/16 × 11 3/16 in.); Paper: 27.8 × 35.5 cm (11 × 14 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Michael D. Wolcott

Reference Number

1988.505.3

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