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New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
Sunset Village, Farm Security Administration Housing Project; Type B Homes For Defense Workers
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.

Sunset Village, Farm Security Administration Housing Project; Type B Homes For Defense Workers

Artist Marion Post Wolcott (American, 1910 - 1990)
CultureAmerican
Date1941
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsOverall, Image: 7 × 9 1/2 in. (17.8 × 24.1 cm)
Overall: 8 1/16 × 10 in. (20.5 × 25.4 cm)
Overall, Mat: 20 × 16 in. (50.8 × 40.6 cm)
Credit LinePurchase, Horace W. Goldsmith Fund
Object number84.78.94
Not on view
DescriptionThis is one of a series of 132 FSA photographs of Virginia; all are gelatin silver prints.

ProvenancePurchased prints from Library of Congress (negatives on file at Library of Congress,) 1984.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: p. 104.