Rickets Victim

Sharecropper’s child suffering from rickets and malnutrition, Wilson cotton plantation, Mississippi County; August 1935. Photo by Arthur Rothstein.

White child standing with logs and house behind him

Courtesy of Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division

Media

Time Period

Early Twentieth Century (1901 - 1940)

Category

Civil Rights and Social Change / Medicine / Pathology / Poverty / Science and Medicine

Type

Person

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