Marion Post Wolcott

Dairy farm near Hillsborough. Orange County, North Carolinaa

Wolcott, Marion Post, 1910-1990 · 1940

Dairy farm near Hillsborough, photographed by Marion Post Wolcott for the Farm Security Administration in October 1940. One safety film negative, 3 1/4 by 4 1/4 inches or smaller.

Negro helper putting peavine hay into barn loft. Mr. J.V. Harris' farm, nine miles south of Chapel Hill on Highway 15. Chatham County, North Carolina

Wolcott, Marion Post, 1910-1990 · 1940

At J.V. Harris' farm on Highway 15, nine miles south of Chapel Hill in Chatham County, Marion Post Wolcott photographed a Black helper loading peavine hay into the barn loft in September 1940. Farm Security Administration safety film negative.

Negro helper with wagon in front of J.V. Harris' barn, nine miles south of Chapel Hill on Highway 15. Chatham County, North Carolina

Wolcott, Marion Post, 1910-1990 · 1940

Marion Post Wolcott's September 1940 Farm Security Administration photograph of a Black farmhand with a wagon in front of J.V. Harris' barn on Highway 15 in Chatham County, nine miles south of Chapel Hill. One safety film negative.

Parent Teacher Association of Prospect Hill, Caswell County, serving and selling Brunswick stew dinner in Mebane, North Carolina on opening day of tobacco market to raise money for a new gymnasium for the Prospect Hill consolidated school in Caswell County, North Carolina

Wolcott, Marion Post, 1910-1990 · 1940

Marion Post Wolcott photographed the Prospect Hill Parent Teacher Association of Caswell County in October 1940 as its members served and sold a Brunswick stew dinner in Mebane on the tobacco market's opening day. The proceeds were for a new gymnasium at the Prospect Hill consolidated school. Farm Security Administration; one safety film negative.

Parent Teachers Association of Prospect Hill, Caswell County serving and selling Brunswick stew dinner in Mebane, North Carolina on opening day of tobacco market, to raise money for a new gymnasium for the Prospect Hill consolidated school in Caswell County, North Carolina

Wolcott, Marion Post, 1910-1990 · 1940

Brunswick stew dinner served and sold in Mebane in October 1940 by the Parent Teachers Association of Prospect Hill in Caswell County, raising money for a gymnasium at the Prospect Hill consolidated school on the tobacco market's opening day. Marion Post Wolcott, Farm Security Administration; one safety film negative.

Parent Teachers Association of Prospect Hill, Caswell County, serving and selling Brunswick stew dinner in Mebane, North Carolina, on opening day of tobacco market to raise money for a new gymnasium for the Prospect Hill consolidated school in Caswell County

Wolcott, Marion Post, 1910-1990 · 1940

October 1940, Mebane: members of the Prospect Hill Parent Teachers Association from Caswell County sell a Brunswick stew dinner on opening day of the tobacco market, raising funds for a new gymnasium at their consolidated school. Photograph by Marion Post Wolcott for the Farm Security Administration; one safety film negative.

Cedar Grove, 1939 : revisiting Marion Post's photos of a Black rural neighborhood

Bennett, Evan P. · 2025 · Historical Research Office, Office of Archives and History

Evan P. Bennett returns to the photographs Marion Post Wolcott made in 1939 in Cedar Grove, a Black farming neighborhood in northern Orange County that she documented for the federal resettlement program. Published in 2025 by the Historical Research Office in Raleigh, pages 384 to 406, with illustrations and portraits. Topics include rural African Americans in the Cedar Grove township and photographers in the state.

Included because: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Wolcott, Marion Post, 1910-1990.