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1939; printed 1968

A dye transfer color photograph of rural life outside of Belzoni, Mississippi by Marion Post Wolcott. At a daytime muddy creek near a cotton plantation, a man and three women fish. They are surrounded by dry foliage and dull green mature trees. Seated along the edges of the creek, the man, crouched, wears a sand-colored hat; bright shirt; dark trousers, and holds a long fishing rod in his proper right hand. Seated to his proper left, arms crossed, is a woman wearing a light-colored long sleeve dress and light-colored wide-brim bucket hat. To her proper left sits another woman, her legs sprawled towards the water. She wears a light-colored wide-brim hat and blouse, and holds a fishing rod. Nearer to the unseen photographer among the dry foliage, at the bottom right of the camera’s frame, stands a woman wearing a long pink dress over a short sleeve shirt and wide-brim hat. She holds a fishing rod in her proper right hand. The back of the photograph, from the top left corner to bottom right, features provenance marks and inscriptions: [RWFA 1868 / PF113003-111 / ARTIST: MARION POST WOLCOTT / TITLE: NEGROES FISHING IN CREEK NEAR COTTON PLANTATIONS OUTSIDE BELZONI MISS. DELTA / TRANSPARENCY DATE: OCT. 1939 / PRINTING DATE: 12/86 / LIGHT GALLERY REG. NO.: 107.8]. Beneath the authentication disclaimer is the signature [Tennyson Schad].

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dye transfer prints

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dye on paper (fiber product)

H x W (Image): 6 7/8 × 9 13/16 in. (17.5 × 24.9 cm)
H x W (Sheet): 9 13/16 × 12 11/16 in. (25 × 32.3 cm)

Title • Negroes fishing in creek near cotton plantations outside Belzoni Miss. Delta, October 1939

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NEGROES FISHING IN CREEK NEAR COTTON PLANTATIONS OUTSIDE BELZONI MISS. DELTA, OCTOBER 1939

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1930s

Schad, Tennyson • Wolcott, Marion Post • LIGHT Gallery • Farm Security Administration

Mississippi • United States • Belzoni • North and Central America • Humphreys County

Photography • Rural life • American South • Recreation • U.S. History, 1933-1945

City • Belzoni • County • Humphreys County • State • Mississippi • Country • United States • Continent • North and Central America

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