Southeast Missouri Farms. Son of sharecropper combing hair in bedroom of shack – Vintage Wall Art
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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This rare historic photograph captures Southeast Missouri Farms. Son of sharecropper combing hair in bedroom of shack in remarkable detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Southeast Missouri Farms. Son of sharecropper combing hair in bedroom of shack
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A son of a sharecropper combs his hair in the bedroom of a plain shack in New Madrid County, Missouri, in this May 1938 view. The county lies in the state's Bootheel, where cotton plantations depended on tenant and sharecropping families who often lived in small, sparsely furnished homes. The Farm Security Administration sent photographers into such communities during the Depression to document rural living conditions, and the Office of War Information later took over the file. The original negative is missing, so this survives as a film copy.
| Created / published | 1938 May. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative ; 8 x 10 inches or smaller. |
| Genre | Film negatives. |
| Notes | Title and other information from caption card. Original negative missing. United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. |
| Subjects | United States--Missouri--New Madrid County--Southeast Missouri Farms. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,093 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-170802 |
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