Lot of 10 Type II photographs, 10 x 8 in., many by Farm Security Administration photographers including Jack Delano (American, 1914-1997), Dorothea Lange (American, 1895-1965), and Marion Post Wolcott (American, 1910-1990). This grouping, paralleling the documentary objectives of the FSA as a whole, thoughtfully captures scenes from American life between 1935 and 1944. Includes a Lange image of a migrant family walking along a highway in Oklahoma, ca 1938, as well two Delano photographs featuring Oscar J. Freeman, a barber from Chicago, and a middle aged man standing next to an nineteenth-century portrait of another man in uniform. Also with two Wolcott images, the first of a group of African Americans dancing at a juke joint in Mississippi, ca 1939, and the second of a group of young day laborers awaiting pay.
Lot of 10 Type II photographs, 10 x 8 in., many by Farm Security Administration photographers including Jack Delano (American, 1914-1997), Dorothea Lange (American, 1895-1965), and Marion Post Wolcott (American, 1910-1990). This grouping, paralleling the documentary objectives of the FSA as a whole, thoughtfully captures scenes from American life between 1935 and 1944. Includes a Lange image of a migrant family walking along a highway in Oklahoma, ca 1938, as well two Delano photographs featuring Oscar J. Freeman, a barber from Chicago, and a middle aged man standing next to an nineteenth-century portrait of another man in uniform. Also with two Wolcott images, the first of a group of African Americans dancing at a juke joint in Mississippi, ca 1939, and the second of a group of young day laborers awaiting pay.
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