Four-year-old Mary, who shucks two pots of oysters a day at Dunbar. Tends the baby when not working ... Location: Dunbar, Louisiana (LOC)
Hine, Lewis Wickes,, 1874-1940,, photographer.
Four-year-old Mary, who shucks two pots of oysters a day at Dunbar. Tends the baby when not working. (See photo 2062). The boss said that next year Mary will work steady as the rest of them. The mother is the fastest shucker in the place. Earns $1.50 a day. Works part of the time with her sick baby in her arms. Father works on the dock. Location: Dunbar, Louisiana.
1911 March.
1 photographic print.
Notes:
Title from NCLC caption card.
Attribution to Hine based on provenance.
In album: Canneries.
Hine no. 2059.
Subjects:
Children & adults.
Cannery workers.
Oyster industry.
Shucking.
Babysitting.
Wages.
United States--Louisiana--Dunbar.
Format: Photographic prints
Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication.
Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
Part Of: Photographs from the records of the National Child Labor Committee (U.S.) 2004667950
General information about the Lewis Hine child labor photos is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.nclc
Higher resolution image is available (Persistent URL): hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/nclc.00918
Call Number: LOT 7476, no. 2059
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Jellibat, ponehpony, mdesive, dibrell, and 28 other people added this photo to their favorites.
Cassies grandma (3 months ago | reply)
And people yearn for the 'good ole days' Not me.
cgullz (3 months ago | reply)
amazing history.
Max Penn (3 months ago | reply)
In addition to intolerable working conditions, those oysters went to market after being handled by a woman who was also tending a sick baby.
Retired at last (3 months ago | reply)
They all seem to think they'd be the ones with the servants, never that these were the conditions of life for the majority.
cobra0435 (3 months ago | reply)
Hungry people are not picky about their work. Those were hard times. We should be thankful we have it so good. There are still people around the world that eat whatever the can find, starving and malnourished.
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