Object Details
- Caption
- Martha Olson graduated from Northwestern University with her B.A. in Art in 1969, and within a year, she was working more than 800 miles away as the girls’ physical education teacher at Marion High School in Columbia, Mississippi. It was the first year of integration in Mississippi public schools. During that time, Olson photographed local students, their relatives, and other residents of Marion County, which she later compiled into a series entitled, "Marion County Mississippi: 1970-1971."
- Description
- A black and white photograph of an unidentified cafeteria worker holding an unidentified child at Marion County High School. The photograph is close-up image of the child, who is staring directly at the camera and is wearing a plaid shirt. The woman, who is only partially visible, has her proper left across the child's chest. The photograph is mounted to a paper frame by plastic photo corners. [Martha Olson] is handwritten in pencil on the interior frame below the photograph. On the back of the photograph is a handwritten inscription reading [Cafeteria woman Holding Baby, Marion County High, 1970].
- Data Source
- National Museum of African American History and Culture
- Photograph by
- Martha Olson, American
- Subject of
- Unidentified Woman or Women
- Unidentified Child or Children
- Date
- 1970
- Credit Line
- Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Martha Olson
- Medium
- silver and photographic gelatin on photographic paper
- Dimensions
- H x W (Image): 9 15/16 × 8 in. (25.2 × 20.3 cm)
- H x W (Paper Frame Closed): 16 7/8 × 13 15/16 in. (42.9 × 35.4 cm)
- H x W (Paper Frame Open): 16 7/8 × 27 15/16 in. (42.9 × 71 cm)
- Type
- gelatin silver prints
- portraits
