File:Hog killing Halifax County Marion Post Wolcott 1939.jpeg

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English: "Hog killing on Milton Puryeur place; He is a Negro owner of five acres of land; Rural Route No. 1, Box 59, Dennison, Halifax County, Virginia; This is six miles south [on Highway No. 501] of South Boston; He used to grow tobacco and cotton but now just a subsistence living; These hogs belong to a neighbor landowner; He burns old shoes and pieces of leather near the heads of the slaughtered hogs while they are hanging to keep the flies away." Photograph by Marion Post Wolcott from the U.S. Farm Security Administration, courtesy of the New York Public Library Digital Collection.
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Marion Post Wolcott  (1910–1990)  wikidata:Q436687
 
Marion Post Wolcott
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Marion Post; Marion Mary Scott Post Wolcott
Description American photographer and artist
Farm Security Administration
Date of birth/death 7 June 1910 / 1910 Edit this at Wikidata 24 November 1990 / 1990 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death New Jersey Santa Barbara Edit this at Wikidata
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Public domain This image is a work of an employee of the United States Farm Security Administration or Office of War Information domestic photographic units, taken as part of that person's official duties. As a work of the U.S. federal government, the image is in the public domain in the United States. See Copyright.

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