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Sharecropper Home

Russell Lee captures an image of a mother teaching her children numbers and letters in a typical sharecropper style home in Transylvania, Louisiana, 1939.

Sharecropper Home

Courtesy of Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division

Sharecropper Home. Lee, Russell (Photographer)

Additional Data

Courtesy of Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
Collection Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information Photograph Collection (Library of Congress)
Date January 1939
Copyright Public Domain
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