Shrimp Pickers,Peerless Oyster Company,St. Louis,Mississippi,Child Labor,1911

Title: Shrimp-pickers in Peerless Oyster Co. Photo taken just as they stood. On other side of the shed, still younger children were working. Out of sixty working (only half were there) I counted fifteen apparently under twelve years old. Some three, four, and five years old were picking too. Parents acknowledged ages and fact that they worked some. Boss said they went to work at 3:00 A.M., and would quit about 3 or 4 P.M. 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. 2033.
Subjects:
Children & adults.
Cannery workers.
Shrimp industry.
Hours of labor.
United States--Mississippi--Bay St. Louis.
Photographic prints
Bookmark /ncl2004002726/PP/
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