Marion Post Wolcott Sunday School Picnic

Marion Post Wolcott photograph for sale – Sunday School Picnic. Formally cataloged in the Library of Congress as “Prayer, or grace, at Sunday school picnic in abandoned mining town of Jere, West Virginia.” The original date of the photo as 1938 Sept. This gelatin silver print taken for the Farm Security Administration, FSA photography project, and dates to the 1960s- 1970s. The reverse of the photograph with a faded “Reproduced from the collections of the Library of Congress”, with handwritten pencil inscription ” Sept 38; P. Wolcott, saying grace – Sunday picnic, Jere W. Va. and a catalog number also written in pencil.

Marion Post Wolcott photographs taken on behalf of the FSA and focuses on her assignment of capturing the effects on small town and rural America through the plain states and the deep south. The effects of rural poverty on American Society and documenting the daily life of the people affected by the economic developments of the Great Depression. FSA photo project included a group of highly influential WPA American photographers that included Dorthea Lange, Walker Evans, and Marion Post Wolcott. Considered “depression photographers,” the group focused on mostly rural areas and documented the depth of poverty and struggle through middle America. This black and white photograph documents a community event in an abandoned mining town in West Virginia. The image is part of the FSA archive from the 1930s. and retains a Library of Congress catalog number of LC-USF33- 030137-M4. The photograph part of a collection of original FSA photographs and acquired via a Washington D.C. art advisory consulting group.

The sheet measures 8 x 10 inches. The image measures 6.45 x 9.45 inches.

The photograph displays circular edge loss to the margin edges. The photograph surface displays minor abrasions and surface imperfections with markings and notations on the reverse.