Oyster Shucker,Varn & Platt Canning Company,Bluffton,South Carolina,1913 1

Title: 10 year old Jimmie. Been shucking 3 years. 6 pots a day, and a 11 year old boy who shucks 7 pots. Also several members of an interesting family named Sherrica. Seven of them are in this factory. The father, mother, four girls shuck and pack. Older brother steams. 10 year old boy goes to school. Been in the oyster business 5 years. Father worked for 25 years in the Pennsylvania Coal Mine, and the oldest brother there[?] They said they liked the oysters business better because the family makes more. Varn & Platt Canning Co. Location: Bluffton, South Carolina.
Creator(s): Hine, Lewis Wickes, 1874-1940, photographer
Date Created/Published: [1913] February.
1 negative : glass ; 4 x 5 in.
Notes:
Title from NCLC caption card.
Attribution to Hine based on provenance.
In album: Canneries.
Hine no. 3306.
Year not recorded on caption card; 1913 based on cards for photographs with neighboring numbers taken in same location. Some text overlapping on card, making it hard to decipher.
Subjects:
Boys.
Women.
Cannery workers.
Oyster industry.
Shucking.
Wages.
School attendance.
United States--South Carolina--Bluffton.
Glass negatives
Photographic prints
Bookmark /ncl2004002108/PP/
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