<I>Negroes fishing in creek near cotton plantations outside Belzoni Miss. Delta, October 1939</I>

Marion Post Wolcott, American, 1910 - 1990 · 1939; printed 1968

A dye transfer color photograph of rural life outside of Belzoni, Mississippi by Marion Post Wolcott. At a daytime muddy creek near a cotton plantation, a man and three women fish. They are surrounded by dry foliage and dull green mature trees. Seated along the edges of the creek, the man, crouched, wears a sand-colored hat; bright shirt; dark trousers, and holds a long fishing rod in his proper right hand. Seated to his proper left, arms crossed, is a woman wearing a light-colored long sleeve dress and light-colored wide-brim bucket hat. To her proper left sits another woman, her legs sprawled towards the water. She wears a light-colored wide-brim hat and blouse, and holds a fishing rod. Nearer to the unseen photographer among the dry foliage, at the bottom right of the camera’s frame, stands a woman wearing a long pink dress over a short sleeve shirt and wide-brim hat. She holds a fishing rod in her proper right hand. The back of the photograph, from the top left corner to bottom right, features provenance marks and inscriptions: [RWFA 1868 / PF113003-111 / ARTIST: MARION POST WOLCOTT / TITLE: NEGROES FISHING IN CREEK NEAR COTTON PLANTATIONS OUTSIDE BELZONI MISS. DELTA / TRANSPARENCY DATE: OCT. 1939 / PRINTING DATE: 12/86 / LIGHT GALLERY REG. NO.: 107.8]. Beneath the authentication disclaimer is the signature [Tennyson Schad].