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Collections

Marion Post Wolcott
Defense Housing1941

Not on view
Black and white photograph of a man and several young children outside a white clapboard building, with a large white sheet billowing through the air above them
Artist or Maker
Marion Post Wolcott
United States, 1910-1990
Title
Defense Housing
Date Made
1941
Medium
Gelatin silver print
Dimensions
Image: 8 15/16 × 12 1/16 in. (22.7 × 30.64 cm) Primary support: 10 7/8 × 13 7/8 in. (27.62 × 35.24 cm) Mat: 15 7/8 × 19 7/8 in. (40.32 × 50.48 cm)
Credit Line
The Marjorie and Leonard Vernon Collection, gift of The Annenberg Foundation, acquired from Carol Vernon and Robert Turbin
Accession Number
M.2008.40.2478
Classification
Photographs
Collecting Area
Photography
Selected Bibliography

  • Road Trip: Photography of the American West: Photographies XIXe-XXIe Siècles du Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Bordeaux: Musée des Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux, 2014.