Young Boy Tending Garden in New Madrid County Missouri 1938

A young boy tends to a garden in New Madrid County, Missouri, during May 1938. This scene documents the sharecropping lifestyle in Southeast Missouri, a region where agriculture forms the backbone of the economy. Sharecropping, a system used primarily during the post-Civil War era, enabled families to cultivate crops on rented land.

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