Millworkers Children Eating Watermelon July 1939 North Carolina

Children eat watermelon on a porch in July 1939, six miles north of Roxboro, North Carolina. This image shows the lives of millworkers families during the Great Depression. Many families rented homes while working in local textile mills. The photograph is part of the FSA/OWI collection, documenting the social conditions of the time.

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