Oyster Shuckers,Lowden Canning Company,Bluffton,South Carolina,Lewis W. Hine

Title: Scene in canning factory showing a 7-year old girl who shucks 3 pots of oysters a day, and works regularly, and her 6-year old brother who helps some. Also a 11-year old boy who does six pots a day. Several others here under 12 years, but there were more last month. Mostly negro workers. The boss said 'We keep only enough whites so we can control the negroes and keep them agoing.' 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. 3294.
Subjects:
Children.
Cannery workers.
African Americans.
Oyster industry.
Racism.
United States--South Carolina--Bluffton.
Photographic prints
Bookmark /ncl2004000935/PP/
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