Artworks · Marion Post Wolcott

Winter Visitors Picnicking near Trailer Park, Sarasota, Florida

1941 · Gelatin silver print

Image: 22.2 × 30.4 cm (8 3/4 × 12 in.); Paper: 27.9 × 35.6 cm (11 × 14 1/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Sunset village, an FSA defense housing project, Radford, Virginia

1941 · Gelatin silver print

Image: 20.7 × 28.7 cm (8 3/16 × 11 5/16 in.); Paper: 27.8 × 35.5 cm (11 × 14 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Post Office in Blizzard, Aspen, Colorado

1941 · Gelatin silver print

Image: 22.2 × 30.2 cm (8 3/4 × 11 15/16 in.); Paper: 27.8 × 35.4 cm (11 × 13 15/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Service Station, Used Cars for Sale, Alexandria, Louisiana

1941 · Gelatin silver print

7 1/4 × 9 1/2" (18.4 × 24.2 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Winter Visitors from Nearby Trailer Park, Picnicking Beside Car on Beach, Near Sarasota, Florida

1941 · Gelatin silver print, printed 1981

8 3/4 × 11 3/4" (22.3 × 29.9 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Post Office, Aspen, Colorado

1941 · Gelatin silver print, printed 1978

8 9/16 × 11 1/4" (21.8 × 28.6 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Snowy Night, Woodstock, Vermont

1940 · gelatin silver print

Image: 18.4 x 24 cm (7 1/4 x 9 7/16 in.); Paper: 27.1 x 35.6 cm (10 11/16 x 14 in.); Matted: 50.6 x 40.5 cm (19 15/16 x 15 15/16 in.)

Cleveland Museum of Art

Midway and Carnival Shelby County Fair and Horse Show, Shelbyville, KY

1940 · Gelatin silver print

Image: 16.2 × 24.7 cm (6 7/16 × 9 3/4 in.); Paper: 20.2 × 25.8 cm (8 × 10 3/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Taking a rest from hoeing cotton, on the Allen Plantation, Natchitoches, Louisiana; An FSA Co-op

1940 · Gelatin silver print

Image: 20.1 × 20.6 cm (7 15/16 × 8 1/8 in.); Paper: 35.5 × 27.8 cm (14 × 11 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

One Room School House, Breathitt County, Kentucky

1940 · Gelatin silver print

Image: 22.7 × 30.6 cm (8 15/16 × 12 1/16 in.); Paper: 27.8 × 35.5 cm (11 × 14 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Mr. R.B. Whitley in his general store, Wendell, North Carolina. (He also owns a cotton exchange, real estate and is president of the bank)

1940 · Gelatin silver print

Image: 22.6 × 30.3 cm (8 15/16 × 11 15/16 in.); Paper: 27.8 × 35.4 cm (11 × 13 15/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Baptism of members of Primitive Baptist Church, in Triplett Creek, Rowan County, near Morehead, Kentucky

1940 · Gelatin silver print

Image: 21.4 × 29.4 cm (8 7/16 × 11 5/8 in.); Paper: 27.7 × 35.5 cm (10 15/16 × 14 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Town Meeting, Vermont

1940 · Gelatin silver print

9 13/16 × 13" (24.9 × 33 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

"Working Men Lunches" Café Where Construction Workers Eat in Pineville, Louisiana, on Highway to Camp Livingston

1940 · Gelatin silver print

6 7/8 × 9 5/16" (17.4 × 23.7 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Winter Tourists

1940 · Gelatin silver print

8 5/16 × 10 9/16" (21.1 × 26.9 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Center of Town after Blizzard, Woodstock, Vermont

1940 · Gelatin silver print, printed 1978

9 1/4 × 12 13/16" (23.6 × 32.4 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Baptism in Triplett Creek, Rowan County, Kentucky

1940 · Gelatin silver print, printed 1981

8 7/16 × 11 1/2" (21.4 × 29.3 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

[Haircutting in Front of General Store and Post Office on Marcella Plantation, Mileston, Mississippi]

1939 · Gelatin silver print

Image: 9 13/16 × 12 11/16 in. (25 × 32.2 cm) Mount: 12 3/4 in. × 15 3/4 in. (32.4 × 40 cm) Mat: 16 × 20 in. (40.6 × 50.8 cm) Frame: 18 × 20 in. (45.7 × 50.8 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Waiting to be Paid Off for Picking Cotton, Plantation Store, Mileston, Miss.

1939 · Gelatin silver print

11 x 14

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Sign Along Road to Marcella Plantation, Mileston, Mississippi Delta, Mississippi

1939 · gelatin silver print

Image: 16.6 x 24.5 cm (6 9/16 x 9 5/8 in.); Paper: 20.6 x 25.4 cm (8 1/8 x 10 in.); Matted: 35.6 x 45.7 cm (14 x 18 in.)

Cleveland Museum of Art

Negro Day Laborers, Marcella Plantation, Milestone, Mississippi Delta

1939 · Gelatin silver print

Image: 18.1 × 24.3 cm (7 3/16 × 9 5/8 in.); Paper: 20.6 × 25.5 cm (8 1/8 × 10 1/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Making Biscuits for Dinner on Corn Husking Day, the Fred Wilkens Farm, near Tallyho, North Carolina

1939 · Gelatin silver print

Image: 22.6 × 30.6 cm (8 15/16 × 12 1/16 in.); Paper: 27.8 × 35.6 cm (11 × 14 1/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Union Members Waiting for the Strike-Breaking Scabs to Come out of the Copper Mines, Ducktown, Tennessee

1939 · Gelatin silver print

Image: 22.4 × 30.5 cm (8 7/8 × 12 1/16 in.); Paper: 27.7 × 35.4 cm (10 15/16 × 13 15/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Negro man entering a movie theatre by outside stairway "For Colored Only" in the Delta area, Belzoni, Mississippi

1939 · Gelatin silver print

Image: 21.1 × 30.7 cm (8 5/16 × 12 1/8 in.); Paper: 27.9 × 35.6 cm (11 × 14 1/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Cashiers Paying off Cotton Pickers in Marcella Plantation Store, Mileston, Mississippi

1939 · Gelatin silver print

Image: 22.5 × 30.3 cm (8 7/8 × 11 15/16 in.); Paper: 27.7 × 35.4 cm (10 15/16 × 13 15/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Two Couples in Booth at Juke Joint, Moorehaven, Florida

1939 · Gelatin silver print

Image: 30.6 × 22.7 cm (12 1/16 × 8 15/16 in.); Paper: 35.6 × 27.8 cm (14 1/16 × 11 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Brunch being served to winter visitor in private club, Miami, Florida

1939 · Gelatin silver print

Image: 21.1 × 30 cm (8 5/16 × 11 13/16 in.); Paper: 27.7 × 35.4 cm (10 15/16 × 13 15/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Migrant Agricultural workers camping out in cane bush near Homestead, Fla. One of the women said, "we ain't never lived like hogs before, but we sure does now."

1939 · Gelatin silver print

Image: 27.2 × 25.3 cm (10 3/4 × 10 in.); Paper: 35.4 × 27.7 cm (13 15/16 × 10 15/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

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

1939 · Gelatin silver print

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

Art Institute of Chicago

A Member of Witkin's Family Making Biscuits

1939 · Gelatin silver print

11 × 14" (27.9 × 35.6 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Mr. R.B. Whitley Visiting his General Store

1939 · Gelatin silver print, printed 1977-78

7 7/8 × 11" (20.1 × 28.0 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Coalminer's Children, Charleston, West Virginia

1938 · Gelatin silver print

Image: 21.2 × 28.7 cm (8 3/8 × 11 5/16 in.); Paper: 27.8 × 35.4 cm (11 × 13 15/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Movie Advertisement on the Side of a Building, "Birth of a Baby," Welch, West Virginia

1938 · Gelatin silver print

7 × 8 3/4" (17.8 × 22.3 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Unemployed Coal Miner's Daughter Carrying Home Can of Kerosene; Company Housing, Pursglove, Scott's Run, West Virginia

1938 · Gelatin silver print (selenium-toned), printed 1978

8 5/16 × 11 3/16" (21.2 × 28.5 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Tenant Farmer's Children, Younger One with Rickets from Malnutrition. Eroded Land the Result of Tobacco-Cotton Weevel. Wadesboro, North Carolina

1935 · Gelatin silver print

26.5 × 22.7 cm (image); 35.4 × 27.7 (paper)

Art Institute of Chicago