Child Opening Jar of Fruit on Missouri Farm 1938

A child of a sharecropper opens a jar of fruit in a kitchen on a Southeast Missouri farm. Taken in May 1938, this image is part of the FSA/OWI Collection, illustrating daily life in New Madrid County, Missouri. Sharecropping was a common agricultural practice in the South, affecting many families’ livelihoods during this period.

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