Haircut in Front of General Store and Post Office on Marcella Plantation, Mileston, Mississippi

1939

Marion Post Wolcott

Associated Names
Marion Post Wolcott

Artist, American, 1910 - 1990

This is a photograph of a group of people gathered outside a wooden building. The image shows a scene where a man sitting on an overturned Coca-Cola crate is getting a haircut by another man standing behind him. Nearby, others are seated on the porch steps, with one small child among them. The building has a rustic appearance, with weathered wooden siding and a door with a window. In front of the porch, a metal watering can is visible, and in the background, a few trees and an automobile add to the setting.
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Provenance

Kyle Roberts, San Francisco; Ron Perisho, Gettysburg, PA, 1991; NGA purchase, 2025.

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Inscriptions

on verso, by artist, across top in graphite: Haircutting on Saturday afternoon in front of Marcella / Plantation store, Mileston, Miss. 1939; center: 52447; lower right: Original vintage F.S.A. print / Marion Post Wolcott / 1939; by unknown hand, lower right in graphite: 104; bottom right: 2500 90.252

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