Shrimp Pickers,Peerless Oyster Company,Bay St. Louis,Mississippi,Child Labor,6

Title: A group of shrimp pickers in Peerless Oyster Co., working during the short noon recess. Many workers, including the children, utilize part of the lunch time this way, when there is a lunch time allowed. In many canneries, they snatch their lunches as best they may while the work goes on and others are getting ahead of them. 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. 2041.
Subjects:
Children.
Cannery workers.
Shrimp industry.
Oyster industry.
Rest periods.
United States--Mississippi--Bay St. Louis.
Photographic prints
Bookmark /ncl2004002736/PP/
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