Nan de Gallant, 4 Clark St., Eastport, Maine, 9 year old cartoner, Seacoast Canning Co., Factory #2 ... (LOC)
Hine, Lewis Wickes,, 1874-1940,, photographer.
Nan de Gallant, 4 Clark St., Eastport, Maine, 9 year old cartoner, Seacoast Canning Co., Factory #2. Packs some with her mother. Mother and two sisters work in factory. One sister has made $7 in one day. During the rush season, the women begin work at 7 a.m., and at times work until midnight. Brother works on boats. The family comes from Perry, Me., just for the summer months. Work is very irregular. Nan is already a spoiled child. Location: Eastport, Maine.
1911 August.
1 photographic print.
Notes:
Title from NCLC caption card.
Attribution to Hine based on provenance.
In album: Canneries.
Hine no. 2410.
Subjects:
Girls.
Cannery workers.
Fishing industry.
Hours of labor.
Wages.
United States--Maine--Eastport.
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.00932
Call Number: LOT 7476, no. 2410
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Eli the Bearded (3 months ago | reply)
"Nan is already a spoiled child" wonder what that meant to the source of the line?
pennylrichardsca (3 months ago | reply)
More about "spoiled" Anna J. Gallant (1902-1936):
sevensteeples.com/gallant1.html
She was mother to Maurice Roy Sears (1920- 1985), and wife to Carroll Ernest Sears (married 1922). She only lived to age 34, but there are photos of her as an adult, on the fourth page of the same website:
sevensteeples.com/gallant4.html
Eli the Bearded (3 months ago | reply)
After seeing this poster from Hines:
I'm thinking that perhaps the "spoiled" description is not the modern definition of spoiled by pampering, but a more general sense of decayed, or marred, induced by the soul-deadening work.
TheMaleCosplayer (3 months ago | reply)
*_* Amazing Part of History!
Andrey Timofeev (2 months ago | reply)
O__O