Small child playing in the scant shade of weeds and bean plants near Muskogee, Oklahoma. She had accompanied her elder sister to the bean patch because it was cooler there than in the potato fields where the mother was working

Thirteen year old daughter of Negro sharecropper planting sweet potatoes. She walks down the row and places the young plants in the holes her father dug with a hoe. They will return down the row, water the plants with a bucket then cover the roots with earth. Olive Hill, North Carolina

Daughter of tenant farmer peeling potatoes for noonday meal. Muskogee, Oklahoma

Small child playing in the scant shade of weeds and bean plants near Muskogee, Oklahoma. She had accompanied her elder sister to the bean patch because it was cooler there than in the potato fields where the mother was working

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Public domain image of infant, child, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

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Date

01/01/1939

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Contributors

Lee, Russell, 1903-1986, photographer

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Location

West Muskogee, 35.73704, -95.41192

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Source

Library of Congress

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http://www.loc.gov/

No known restrictions. For information, see U.S. Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Black & White Photographs http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/071_fsab.html

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