Sharecropper Family in Missouri May 1938

A sharecroppers wife and child stand in a cut-over farming region along the Mississippi River in Missouri. Taken in May 1938, the image illustrates the daily life of agricultural families during that era. Sharecropping was a common practice in the South, enabling families to cultivate land they did not own while sharing the crop yield with landowners.

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