theamericanparlor: Poor In America (1936) A mother in a family of nine holds one of her children as
theamericanparlor: Poor In America (1936) A mother in a family of nine holds one of her children as another child stands beside her. She is wearing a feed sack as a skirt. The family was photographed by Carl Mydans, a New Deal photographer, in 1936. He saw them living in a field next to U.S. 70 in Tennessee, near the Tennessee River. Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information Photograph Collection (Library of Congress) -- source link