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Pahokee Hotel, migrant vegetable pickers' quarters, near Homestead, Florida
Pahokee Hotel, migrant vegetable pickers' quarters, near Homestead, Florida

Pahokee Hotel, migrant vegetable pickers' quarters, near Homestead, Florida

Artist Marion Post Wolcott (American, 1910 - 1990)
DateFebruary 1941
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 10 1/8 × 13 7/16 inches (25.72 × 34.13 cm)
Sheet: 11 1/16 × 13 15/16 inches (28.1 × 35.4 cm)
Credit LineGift of Hallmark Cards, Inc.
Object number2005.27.4533
SignedSigned on sheet verso, lower right, in pencil: "Marion Post Wolcott"; On sheet verso, lower left, in pencil: "An original vintage FSA print / from the personal collection of M.P.W. / Marion Post Wolcott".
InscribedOn sheet verso, top, in pencil: ""Pahokee Hotel" / Migrant vegetable pickers' + packing house workers' housing near / Belle Glade, Fla. Most were out of work because of a "freeze"."
MarkingsOn sheet verso, lower right, in pencil: [possibly "SS" or "88"]
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DescriptionMigrant workers' living quarters.Exhibition History

Dignity vs. Despair: Dorothea Lange and the Depression Era Photographers, 1933-1941. The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, June 23 – November 26, 2017, no cat.

Gallery Label
 Marion Post Wolcott to join the staff of the federally funded Farm Security Administration in 1938. She spent three and a half years photographing for the organization in New England, Kentucky, North Carolina, Florida, Louisiana and Mississippi. As seen in this image, her work often exposes the extreme divides between rich and poor and the realities of race relations during the late 1930s and early 1940s.
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