A Negro Entering a Movie Theatre by Outside "Colored" Entrance, Belzoni, Mississippi

negative 1939, printed 1977

Marion Post Wolcott

American, 1910 - 1990

Gelatin Silver Print

9 5/16 x 12 7/16 in. (23.6 x 31.6 cm)

Gift of Jerome D. Whalen

86.225

Photo: Scott Leen

Not currently on view

Resources

Exhibition HistorySeattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, Recent Modern Acquisitions, Aug. 27 - Oct. 18, 1987.

Seattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, Go Tell It: Civil Rights Photography, Apr. 30, 2016 - Jan. 2, 2017.

Seattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, Semiotics of the Street, Feb. 4 - July 17, 2022.

Seattle Art Museum respectfully acknowledges that we are on Indigenous land, the traditional territories of the Coast Salish people. We honor our ongoing connection to these communities past, present, and future.

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