Jan 30, 2025 - Sale 2692

Sale 2692 - Lot 154

Price Realized: $ 5,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500

(WOLCOTT; ROTHSTEIN; LEE)


A selection of 5 photographs depicting scenes around cotton. 1935-38.
Silver prints, the images measuring 238x187 mm; 9⅜x7⅜ inches, and slightly smaller, and the reverse, each with a numeric notation or RA number in pencil, three with the F.S.A credit stamp, four with the Farm Security Administration stamp, and two with the typed caption, one with the date, on verso.

Includes: Marion Post Wolcott, Mexican laborers on wagonload of cotton infield on Knowlton Plantation, Perthshire, Mississippi Delta 1939 * Ben Shahn, Cotton on porch of sharecropper's home, Maria plantation, Arkansas, 1935 * Arthur Rothstein, Plantation daughter checks weight of cotton, Kaufman County Texas, 1936 * Russell Lee, Weighing cotton, Lake Dick Project, Arkansas, 1938 * no credit, Cotton pickers in field, nd.