Gelatin silver prints on original cardboard mounts, one is titled Boy and Girl at a Gristmill in Eastern Tennessee, each pencil signed "Bayard Wootten" on the mount, unframed.

Sheet Size 10 7/8 x 14 in., Mount 20 x 16 3/4 in. (the first); Sheet Size 10 3/8 x 13 1/2 in., Mount 17 3/8 x 19 1/2 in. (the second)

Chapel Hill Public Library, Chapel Hill, NC

Bayard Wootten was a native of New Bern, North Carolina who pioneered field photography for women. She is best known for her haunting portraits of rural Southerners, such as the stunning examples offered here.

Some toning; several edge nicks and surface inconsistencies to the second; some staining and tears/loss to cardboard mounts.

$400 - 800