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New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
A Farmer Waiting To Sell His Tobacco At The Auction; The Tobacco Is Piled In Baskets Around Him
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.

A Farmer Waiting To Sell His Tobacco At The Auction; The Tobacco Is Piled In Baskets Around Him

Artist Marion Post Wolcott (American, 1910 - 1990)
CultureAmerican
DateOctober 1940
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsOverall, Image: 7 1/8 × 9 1/2 in. (18.1 × 24.1 cm)
Overall: 8 × 10 in. (20.3 × 25.4 cm)
Overall, Mat: 20 × 16 in. (50.8 × 40.6 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase
Object number85.1.11
On View
Not on view
DescriptionThis is one of a series of gelatin silver prints; FSA photographs in Virginia.

Exhibition History"Mountaineers to Main Streets: The Old Dominion as seen through the Farm Security Administration Photographs," Large Changing Gallery, Chrysler Museum of Art, May 3 - June 16, 1985. Published ReferencesBrooks Johnson. _Mountaineers to Main Streets: The Old Dominion as seen through the Farm Security Administration Photographs_. The Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, VA. 1985: pp. 68-69.