Combination Filling Station, Garage, Blacksmith Shop, and Grocery Store; Frank Petty, Owner of the Wagon, Has Just Had His Mule Shod, His Corn Ground, Purchased Some Kerosene, and Is Returning Home, R.F.D. Danville, Virginia, Pittsylvania County, September 1939
Artist
Marion Post Wolcott
(American, 1910 - 1990)
CultureAmerican
Date1939, printed later
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: 16 1/8 × 20 1/8 in. (41 × 51.1 cm)
Overall: 8 × 10 in. (20.3 × 25.4 cm)
Overall, Mat: 16 1/8 × 20 1/8 in. (41 × 51.1 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase
Object number85.1.13
Not on view
DescriptionThis is one of a series of gelatin silver prints; FSA photographs in Virginia.Label TextMarion Post Wolcott American, 1910–1990 Combination Filling Station, Garage, Blacksmith Shop, and Grocery Store; Frank Petty, Owner of the Wagon, Has Just Had His Mule Shod, His Corn Ground, Purchased Some Kerosene, and Is Returning Home, R.F.D. Danville, Virginia, Pittsylvania County, September 1939, 1939, printed later Gelatin silver print (photographs) Museum purchase 85.1.13 Between 1938 and 1942, Marion Post Wolcott took more than 9,000 photographs in rural areas of the American South and Midwest for the Farm Security Administration, a federal agency created to fight poverty. By documenting the daily lives of the poor and working class, these images attached names, faces, and stories to the Great Depression, justifying President Franklin Roosevelt’s economic assistance programs. Previously Wolcott had struggled to find work in the male-dominated world of photojournalism. These commissions gave her opportunities to exercise her artistic voice and explore her particular interest in race relations. 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. 67.
