Marion Post Wolcott (1910–1990) was an American photographer who worked for the Farm Security Administration during the Great Depression documenting poverty, the Jim Crow South, and deprivation.
Post’s photographs for the FSA often explore the political aspects of poverty and deprivation. They also often find humor in the situations she encountered.
In 1941, Post met Leon Oliver Wolcott, deputy director of war relations for the U. S. Department of Agriculture under Franklin Roosevelt. They married, and Marion Post Wolcott continued her assignments for the FSA, but resigned shortly thereafter in February 1942. Wolcott found it difficult to fit in her photography around raising a family and a great deal of traveling and living overseas.
In the 1970s, a renewed interest in Post Wolcott’s images among scholars rekindled her own interest in photography. In 1978, she mounted her first solo exhibition in California, and by the 1980s the Smithsonian and the Metropolitan Museum of Art began to collect her photographs.
Post Wolcott’s work is archived at the Library of Congress and the Center for Creative Photography at the University of Arizona in Tucson, Arizona. These amazing vintage photos are part of her work that Marion Post Wolcott documented everyday life of the U.S during WWII.
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| Cooperative gas station at Greenbelt, Maryland, September 1938 |
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| A FSA (Farm Security Administration) borrower building a new gate for his yard, Prairie Farms, Montgomery, Alabama, 1939 |
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| A rainy evening in New York City looking west toward Hudson River from University Place, September 1939 |
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| A rainy evening in New York City, looking north from University Place, September 1939 |
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| Beach bathers at Miami Beach, Florida, 1939 |
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