Tobacco Sharecropper and Baby on Porch July 1939

Mr. Whitfield, a tobacco sharecropper from Person County, North Carolina, sits on a front porch with a baby in a vintage image from July 1939. The photograph is part of the FSA/OWI Collection, which documents the lives of rural Americans during the Great Depression. Sharecropping was a common practice in the South, impacting local economies and communities.

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