Grandparents and Children on Porch in Missouri 1938

A group of grandparents sits with children on the porch of a sharecropper shack in Southeast Missouri Farms, New Madrid County, in May 1938. Sharecropping was a common agricultural practice in the South, where families farmed land owned by others in exchange for a portion of the crops. This image provides insight into rural life and economic challenges faced by these families.

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