

Winter Visitor Being Served Brunch in a Private Club, Palm Beach, Fla.
Object Details
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Date
1940, printed 1980
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Object Type
Photographs
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Medium
Gelatin silver print
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Dimensions
Image: 8 3/16 x 11 5/16 in.
Sheet: 11 x 14 1/16 in. -
Inscriptions
Verso:
u.l. to u.r. in graphite: Winter visitor being served brunch in a private club, \ Palm Beach, Fla. \ Photographed for FSA by MPW 1940 \ Archivally printed by MPW 1980
c. in graphite: 30493 M2
l.r.signed in graphite: Marion Post Wolcott
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Credit Line
Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, Texas, Gift of Dr. John Wolcott, Los Alamos, New Mexico
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Accession Number
P1983.35.8
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Copyright
Public domain
Object Description
Wolcott left behind an extraordinary body of photography, even more impressive for the numerous barriers she overcame to produce it. Initially a freelance photographer in the 1930s, she became a staff photographer with the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin, where she was targeted by male coworkers who would urinate or extinguish their cigarettes in her photography chemicals; the paper even published an article called “Strange Jobs for Women” featuring her portrait.
Nevertheless, in 1938 she became the first woman offered a full-time position with Roy Stryker’s photographic division of the Farm Security Administration (FSA). She spent four amazingly productive years traveling the country, producing over 9,000 photographs. Her output includes images of Black Americans and upper-class society, both of which were unusual subjects for the FSA but today provide important documentation of the uneven effects of the Great Depression.
—Text taken from the Carter Handbook (2023)
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