Wife of Sharecropper Washing Clothes May 1938

A woman washes clothes at Southeast Missouri Farms in New Madrid County in May 1938. This vintage image illustrates the daily life of sharecroppers during the Great Depression. Sharecropping was a common agricultural practice in the South, where landowners provided land and resources to farmers in exchange for a portion of the crop.

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