Vintage Shack of Day Laborer in Southern Louisiana 1938

A shack stands in the sugarcane fields of southern Louisiana, near New Iberia. Taken in November 1938, this image reveals the living conditions of day laborers who worked the fields. Many of these workers came from northern Louisiana parishes, reflecting the regions agricultural economy during the Great Depression and World War II.

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