Oral history interview with Marion Post Wolcott
odd: label: General
content: Originally recorded on 1 sound cassette. Reformatted in 2010 as 1 digital wav file. Duration is 1 hr., 4 min.
name: label: Interviewee
content: Wolcott, Marion Post, 1910-1990
label: Interviewer
content: Doud, Richard Keith
label: Creator
content: New Deal and the Arts Oral History Project
label: Names
content: New Deal and the Arts Oral History Project
label: Names
content: United States. Farm Security Administration. Historical Section
label: Names
content: Stryker, Roy Emerson, 1893-1975
topic: label: Occupation
content: Photographers -- California -- San Francisco
label: Topic
content: Documentary photography
label: Topic
content: Women artists
label: Topic
content: Women photographers
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: This interview conducted as part of the Archives of American Art's New Deal and the Arts project, which includes over 400 interviews of artists, administrators, historians, and others involved with the federal government's art programs and the activities of the Farm Security Administration in the 1930s and early 1940s.
creator: label: Interviewee
content: Wolcott, Marion Post, 1910-1990
label: Interviewer
content: Doud, Richard Keith
label: Creator
content: New Deal and the Arts Oral History Project
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Marion Post Wolcott (1910-1990) was a photographer from San Francisco, California.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 23 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1965 January 18
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.wolcot65
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Pages
label: Type
content: Sound recordings
label: Type
content: Interviews
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: Transcript available on line.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Sound recordings
label: Genre/Form
content: Interviews
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: An interview of Marion Post Wolcott conducted 1965 January 18, by Richard Doud, for the Archives of American Art, at the artist's home, in Mill Valley, California.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Wolcott speaks of her background in photography; experimenting with cameras; working as a photojournalist; joining the Farm Security Administration project; her first assignment photographing West Virginia coal miners; the camaraderie among the FSA photographers; the propagandistic aspects of the work; how the program was run and work assigned; her interest in landscapes; problems of being a woman photographer; the learning experience of meeting Americans all over the country; and the FSA project's long-term value. She recalls Roy Stryker.