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    Marion Post Wolcott (June 7, 1910 – November 24, 1990) was an American photographer who worked for the Farm Security Administration during the Great Depression...
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  • Wolcott may refer to: Wolcott, Colorado Wolcott, Connecticut Wolcott, Indiana Wolcott, Kansas Wolcott, New York Wolcott (village), New York Wolcott, Vermont...
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    Juke joint for migratory workers in Belle Glade, Florida, 1941. Photo by Marion Post Wolcott....
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    on the environment and health of residents. In the late 19th century, the post-Civil War Industrial Revolution and the expansion of the nation's railroads...
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    Mississippi River (as Fort Rosalie); it became the dominant town and trading post of the area. The French called the greater territory "New France"; the Spanish...
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    including casinos.[1] Jukes have been celebrated in photos and film. Marion Post Wolcott's images of the dilapidated buildings and the pulsing life they contained...
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    a petition from residents who experienced Ku Klux Klan violence. Marion Post Wolcott took photographs of people living in the area during the Great Depression...
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    Dorothea Lange (1935), Carl Mydans (1935), Russell Lee (1936), Marion Post Wolcott (1936), John Vachon (1936, photo assignments began in 1938), Jack...
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  • Historians have documented sexual abuse of enslaved women during the colonial and post-revolutionary slavery times by white men in power: planters, their sons before...
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    and smell, beyond the dense trees. It came back only in flood." Marion Post Wolcott documented Rodney in a series of photographs taken for the Farm Security...
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    1940 photo of Jax signs in Melrose, Louisiana by Marion Post Wolcott...
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    1939 enough visible change had occurred for Roy Stryker to send Marion Post Wolcott to the community to photograph the signs of progress—to get the "after"...
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    Jitterbug Jitterbugging at a juke joint, 1939. Photo by Marion Post Wolcott Genre Swing...
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    Administration Photography Program. Through the help of Edwin Rosskam and Marion Post Wolcott, Stryker offered Delano a job at $2,300/year in 1940. As a condition...
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    Washington: U.S. Department of State. pp. 105–123. OCLC 255903231. Marion Post Wolcott (October 1939). "Negro going in colored entrance of movie house on...
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  • including Walker Evans, Dorothea Lange, Russell Lee, John Vachon, and Marion Post Wolcott among others. This generation of documentary photographers is generally...
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    Perry, a commander in the 1813 Battle of Lake Erie in the War of 1812. The post office was initially known as Perry Court House but the name was officially...
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    mechanized crop. The United States Postal Service operates the Belle Glade Post Office. The Florida Department of Corrections operated the Glades Correctional...
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    County executive of Anne Arundel County, Maryland from 1975 to 1982 Marion Post Wolcott (1910–1990), photographer who worked for the Farm Security Administration...
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    Rex Billiard Hall for Colored, Beale Street, 1939. Photo by Marion Post Wolcott....
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    Loading hay, Blairs, Pittsylvania County, 1939. Marion Post Wolcott...
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  • American mountaineer, photographer, and cartographer (d. 2007) 1910 – Marion Post Wolcott, American photographer (d. 1990) 1910 – Bluey, Australian cattle...
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    Abner Mine near Barbourville, 1940. Photo by Marion Post Wolcott....
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    slaveholders' family members, although sometimes "plantation physicians", like J. Marion Sims, were called by the owners to protect their investment by treating...
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    named for the Marcella plantation. A post office operated under the name Marcella from 1881 to 1894. Marion Post Wolcott documented people and scenes from...
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    George Allen Huggins was the first intendant (mayor) of Manning. Manning's Post Office was established in 1856, and Thomas S. Coogler was appointed as the...
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    Angeles County Museum of Art Oakland Museum of California Walker Evans Marion Post Wolcott Martha Gellhorn Wheelers Primitive Baptist Church Hudson, Berkley...
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    Schriever CDP Children fishing in bayou at Schriever, 1940. Photo by Marion Post Wolcott. Schriever Location of Schriever in Louisiana Coordinates: 29°44′42″N...
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    Newport Depot, photographed by Marion Post Wolcott in 1939...
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    town. The Boggan-Hammond House and Alexander Little Wing, United States Post Office, and Wadesboro Downtown Historic District are listed on the National...
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