Marion Post Walcott, woman photographer

It is the birthday of photographer Marion Post Wolcott (1910), whose photographs for the Farm Security Administration of rural families during the Depression helped establish the need for federal assistance for those hardest hit by the economic downturn. She also broke gender barriers working as a newspaper photojournalist. Her work is preserve at the Library of Congress. When Kodak provided rolls of its new Kodachrome film to the FSA, she photographed this scene at a juke joint in Belle Glade, Florida, in February 1941.