May 20, 2010 - Sale 2215

Sale 2215 - Lot 297

Price Realized: $ 3,600
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 4,000 - $ 6,000
POST WOLCOTT, MARION (1910-1990)
Select group of 35 Farm Security Administration photographs by Post Wolcott, including photographs from Miami, West Virginia, and New Orleans. Silver prints, sizes ranging from 6 1/4x9 1/2 to 7 1/2x9 1/2 inches (15.9x24 to 19x24 cm.), and the reverse, 34 with Wolcott's credit and caption, nearly all with the date and each with the Library of Congress's numeric notations, in pencil, in an unknown hand(s), and the Library of Congress hand stamp, on verso; one with Wolcott's credit, the printed caption and date and two F.S.A. hand stamps, on verso. 1936-1941; all but one printed circa 1970
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accompanied by--Group of 14 F.S.A. photographs by John Vachon and 9 by Sheldon Dick. Silver prints, sizes ranging from 6 1/4x9 1/4 to 7 1/2x9 1/2 inches (15.9x23.5 to 19x24 cm.), and the reverse, each with the photographers's credit, caption, date and the Library of Congress's numeric notations, in pencil, in an unknown hand(s), and the Library of Congress hand stamp, on verso. 1935-1938; printed circa 1970.


Each print is housed in a sleeve, nearly all with "The Likes of Us" sticker detailing a page number, and all with a second sticker with the Library of Congress number and title. [See: Stuart Cohen, The Likes of Us: Photography and the Farm Security Administration (Godine, 2008).]