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Wife of evicted sharecropper in tent along highway cooking beans obtained from surplus commodities. New Madrid County, Missouri

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Wife of evicted sharecropper in tent along highway cooking beans obtained from surplus commodities. New Madrid County, Missouri

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Picryl description: Public domain image of food, dinner, grocery store, eating, 1930s, mid-20th-century United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

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01/01/1939
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Rothstein, Arthur, 1915-1985, photographer
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New Madrid, 36.58645, -89.52785
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