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Shrimp Pickers,Peerless Oyster Company,Bay St. Louis,Mississippi,Child Labor,9

Title: Lillian Dambrinio, an eleven-year-old shrimp picker in Peerless Oyster Co. She is an American and lives here. Says picking makes her hands sore. (Not[e] the condition of her shoes. One worker told me, 'The acid in the shrimp eats the shoes off your feet.') She says she earns a dollar a day when shrimp are big. Goes to school, but not when factory is busy. Location: Bay St. Louis, Mississippi.
Creator(s): Hine, Lewis Wickes, 1874-1940, photographer
Date Created/Published: 1911 March.
Notes:
Title from NCLC caption card.
Attribution to Hine based on provenance.
In album: Canneries.
Hine no. 2044.
Subjects:
Girls.
Cannery workers.
Shrimp industry.
Wounds & injuries.
Wages.
School attendance.
United States--Mississippi--Bay St. Louis.
Photographic prints
Bookmark /ncl2004002739/PP/
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