Child Cultivating Cotton in New Madrid County 1938

A child of a sharecropper cultivates cotton in New Madrid County, Missouri in May 1938. During this period, sharecropping was a common practice in the South, allowing families to farm land in exchange for a share of the crop. The image is part of the Farm Security Administration collection, which documented rural life and agricultural practices.

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