Mrs. Oscar Gaither and Children on Farm 1937

Mrs. Oscar Gaither stands with two of her five children outside their farmhouse in McLeansboro, Illinois. In January 1937, the family engaged in tenant farming on an eighty-acre plot. Tenant farming allowed families to cultivate land owned by others, a common practice during the Great Depression, shaping rural communities across the Midwest.

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