Child with rickets. Sharecropper's child suffering from rickets and malnutrition, in Arkansas, USA, in August 1935 during the Great Depression. Ricket
Child with rickets. Sharecropper's child suffering from rickets and malnutrition, in Arkansas, USA, in August 1935 during the Great Depression. Rickets is a softening of the bones caused by a deficiency of vitamin D and/or certain minerals. The child's distended abdomen is a sign of malnutrition. Sharecropping is where farm workers are provided with a share of the crops produced. Photographed at Wilson cotton plantation, Mississippi County, by US photographer Arthur Rothstein (1915-1985). Rothstein's work was for a US government photography project that documented everyday American life between 1935 and 1944.
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