A Sharecropper’s Family in Washington County, Arkansas, 1935
The Resettlement Administration (later the Farm Security Administration) documented the plight of migrant farmworkers and sharecroppers in numerous photographs. The following photo, taken by the noted photojournalist Arthur Rothstein, depicts a sharecropper’s wife and daughters in Washington County, Arkansas, in 1935.
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