Privy of Sharecropper Family New Madrid County Missouri 1938

A privy belonging to a sharecropper family stands in New Madrid County, Missouri, in May 1938. The image is part of the FSA/OWI Collection. During the Great Depression, sharecropping was a common agricultural practice in the South, allowing families to cultivate land in exchange for a portion of their harvest.

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