Object Details
- Description
- 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].
- Data Source
- National Museum of African American History and Culture
- Photograph by
- Marion Post Wolcott, American, 1910 - 1990
- Commissioned by
- Farm Security Administration, American, 1937 - 1946
- Printed by
- LIGHT Gallery, American, 1971 - 1987
- Subject of
- Unidentified Man or Men
- Unidentified Woman or Women
- Signed by
- Tennyson Schad, American, 1930 - 2001
- Date
- 1939; printed 1968
- Credit Line
- Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Howard Greenberg
- Medium
- dye on paper (fiber product)
- Dimensions
- 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)
- Type
- dye transfer prints
