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Bennie's Grocery Store, in Negro Section of Town, Near Montgomery, Alabama

Photo: Scott Leen

Bennie's Grocery Store, in Negro Section of Town, Near Montgomery, Alabama

negative 1940, printed 1977

Marion Post Wolcott

American, 1910 - 1990

Gelatin silver print
9 1/16 x 11 15/16 in. (23 x 30.4 cm)
Pacific Northwest Bell, the Photography Council, the Polaroid Foundation, Mark Abrahamson, and the National Endowment for the Arts
83.160
Provenance: [Equivalents Gallery, Seattle, Washington]; purchased by Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Washington, 1983
Photo: Scott Leen
location
Not currently on view

Resources

Exhibition HistorySeattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, 200 Photographs from the Museum Collection, Dec. 8, 1983 - Feb. 5, 1984. Text by Rod Slemmons. No cat. no.

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