Wife of Tobacco Sharecropper with Baby July 1939

A young tobacco sharecroppers wife sits in a window with her five-month-old baby in Granville County, North Carolina. Taken in July 1939, this image illustrates the daily life of rural families during the Great Depression. The woman, aged seventeen, contributed to tobacco planting on their farm the following day. This photo is part of the FSA/OWI Collection, which documents American rural life in this era.

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