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Children having snowball fight in front of their home in Woodstock, Vermont.

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ArtistMarion Post Wolcott (American, 1910–1990)
TitleChildren having snowball fight in front of their home in Woodstock, Vermont.
DateMarch 1940
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 7 5/16 × 9 5/8 in. (18.6 × 24.4 cm)
Sheet: 8 1/8 × 10 1/16 in. (20.7 × 25.5 cm)
Credit LineHenry Holmes Smith Archive, Eskenazi Museum of Art, Indiana University
Accession Number79.200.XX.4.34
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A horizontal black-and-white photograph depicts three children and a dog playing in deep snow next to a house on a hill. More houses line both sides of a street at the bottom of the hill. Larger hills are seen in the distance.

A horizontal black-and-white photograph depicts three children and a dog playing in deep snow next to a house on a hill. More houses line both sides of a street at the bottom of the hill. Larger hills are seen in the distance.

These images were produced for the Farm Security Administration (FSA), a government agency established in the late 1930s to record the way of life on America's farms and small towns and to promote government programs intended to help impoverished rural citizens during the Depression. [Displayed with 200.XX.2.22]

Additional Constituents
PublisherFarm Security Administration

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"Children having snowball fight in front of their home in Woodstock, Vermont. | Collections Online." Collections Online. Sidney and Lois Eskenazi Museum of Art, Indiana University, 2025. https://artmuseum.indiana.edu/collections-online/browse/object.php?number=79.200.XX.4.34