Oyster Shuckers,Lowden Canning Company,Bluffton,South Carolina,Child Labor

Title: 7 year old oyster shucker. Speaks no English. Father and mother earn about $15 a week, and this little one works steady and her six year old brother same. Lowden Canning Co. Location: Bluffton, South Carolina.
Creator(s): Hine, Lewis Wickes, 1874-1940, photographer
Date Created/Published: [1913] February.
Notes:
Title from NCLC caption card.
Attribution to Hine based on provenance.
In album: Canneries.
Hine no. 3309.
Year not recorded on caption card; 1913 based on cards for photographs with neighboring numbers taken in same location.
Subjects:
Girls.
Cannery workers.
Oyster industry.
Shucking.
Immigrants.
Wages.
United States--South Carolina--Bluffton.
Photographic prints
Bookmark /ncl2004001739/PP/
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