Southeast Missouri Farms. Son of a sharecropper dressing in a combination of bedroom and corn crib, 1938.

Southeast Missouri Farms. Son of a sharecropper dressing in a combination of bedroom and corn crib, 1938.

Additional title: [Young African American man, son of a sharecropper, knotting his necktie while sitting on a quilt-covered bed that lies next to a pile of corn (the room is used as both a bedroom and corn crib), Southeast Missouri Farms, Missouri, May 1938.]

Missouri
Bedrooms
Children of sharecroppers
African American young men
New Madrid County (Mo.)
Corncribs

The Farm Security Administration (FSA) through a photography unit named - the Historical Section, documented the lives of African American Sharecroppers from 1935-1944 in Southeast Missouri.

Lee, Russell (1903-1986) (Photographer)

Still Image

New York Public Library Domain

1938-05

United States. Farm Security Administration (Sponsor)

From The New York Public Library | Direct Link: http://theartsatpagelibrary.omeka.net/items/show/37

Farm Security Administration Collection.

Photograph

English

Photographs
Gelatin silver prints

Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): dbde0b10-c612-012f-d841-58d385a7bc34

Content: Photographs and Prints Division, The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.
Content: Original negative #: 31225-D

Photo

8 X 10 in.