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Coal Miners Card Gambling, Saturday Afternoon on Porch of Company Store, Chaplin, West Virginia

Marion Post Wolcott

Coal Miners Card Gambling, Saturday Afternoon on Porch of Company Store, Chaplin, West Virginia

1938

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Marion Post Wolcott

Coal Miners Card Gambling, Saturday Afternoon on Porch of Company Store, Chaplin, West Virginia

1938

Physical Qualities Gelatin silver print, Image/Sheet: 163 x 237 mm. (6 7/16 x 9 5/16 in.)
Credit Line Roger M. Dalsheimer Photography Fund
Object Number 1990.56
The Baltimore Museum of Art by purchase from Susan Ehrens, by purchase from the artist.
Jan Howard, BMA, "A Century of American Photography: A Decade of BMA Acquisitions," 22 October 1997 - 11 January 1998.

Rena Hoisington, BMA, "Looking through the Lens: Photography 1900-1960," 16 March - 8 June 2008.

Rena Hoisington, The Academy Art Museum, "Picturing America: 1930-1960 Photographs from the Baltimore Museum of Art," July 31 - October 3, 2009.

Inscribed: Verso: at top, in graphite: "Miners + kids on porch, playing cards, W. Va. 1939"; at upper center: "30248 H/2 [graphite] / Post - Wolcott for FSA [blue ink] / 30248M2 [graphite]"; at bottom, in graphite: "Original vintage F.S.A. print Marion Post Wolcott"

Markings: None

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