Four-year-old Mary, who shucks two pots of oysters a day at Dunbar....

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TITLE:Four-year-old Mary, who shucks two pots of oysters a day at Dunbar. Tends the baby when not working. (See photo 2062). The boss said that next year Mary will work steady as the rest of them. The mother is the fastest shucker in the place. Earns $1.50 a day. Works part of the time with her sick baby in her arms. Father works on the dock. Location: Dunbar, Louisiana.

CALL NUMBER:LOT 7476, no. 2059[P&P]
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REPRODUCTION NUMBER:LC-DIG-nclc-00918 (color digital file from b&w original print)
LC-USZ6-1207 (b&w film copy negative)
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MEDIUM:1 photographic print.

CREATED/PUBLISHED:1911 March.

CREATOR:

Hine, Lewis Wickes, 1874-1940, photographer.

NOTES:

Title from NCLC caption card.

Attribution to Hine based on provenance.

In album: Canneries.

Hine no. 2059.

SUBJECTS:

Children & adults.
Cannery workers.
Oyster industry.
Shucking.
Babysitting.
Wages.
United States--Louisiana--Dunbar.

FORMAT:

Photographic prints

PART OF:Photographs from the records of the National Child Labor Committee (U.S.)

REPOSITORY:Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA

DIGITAL ID:(color digital file from b&w original print) nclc 00918

CARD #:ncl2004000541/PP





Pop Art Machine Code: nclc-00900-00918


LOC 1493279


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