Grit & Grace: Photographs from the Nelson Brothers Collection
Marion Post Wolcott
Going home from school. In Breathitt County, Kentucky. The school year begins in July and ends in January, as most of the children have no shoes and insufficient clothing to walk the long distances over bad roads and up creek beds.
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Grit & Grace: Photographs from the Nelson Brothers Collection
Marion Post Wolcott
1910 - 1990
Going home from school. In Breathitt County, Kentucky. The school year begins in July and ends in January, as most of the children have no shoes and insufficient clothing to walk the long distances over bad roads and up creek beds.
ferrotyped gelatin silver print, 55854D in pencil, the photographer’s Farm Security Administration credit and return stamps, and with typed title and date on the reverse, framed, a Howard Greenberg Gallery label on the reverse
image: 7 ¼ by 9 ⅛ in. (18.4 by 23.2 cm.)
Executed in 1940.
Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Marion Post Wolcott: FSA Photographs, Carmel: The Friends of Photography 1983, pl. 16
