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All these are shrimp-pickers in Dunbar, Lopez, Dukate Company. Youngest in photo are five and eight years of age. Location: Biloxi, Mississippi

A black and white photo of two women and two children. Great Depression FFSA / OWI Negatives

Wife and child of Navy yard worker from North Carolina, now living in one room apartment in Helping Hand Mission. Portsmouth, Virginia

Wife and child of Navy yard worker from North Carolina, now living in one room apartment in Helping Hand Mission. Portsmouth, Virginia

Their first Xmas in America, Ellis Island

This picture shows the "Four Novelty Grahams" acrobatic performers at the Victoria Theatre, Philadelphia. The father is 23 years of age. Willie Graham is 5 years of age, and Herbert Graham is 3 years of age. At 9 P.M. on June 10th, 1910, these children were performing on the stage. Four times daily they do a turn which lasts from 12 to 14 minutes. Herbert Graham, the youngest, was said by the father to have commenced performing on the stage as a[n] acrobat when he was 10 months of age. Willie, now 5, is said to be the youngest acrobat in the world. The attached letter head shows some of the stunts these youngsters are engaged in. The mother of these boys was formerly a school teacher, and is now performing with this trio on the stage. The children are bright and strong, but have a playfulness about them which shows them to have forgotten the best years of childhood. Edward F. Brown, Investigator. Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania / Photo by Lewis W. Hine.

1353 ----- A Pool Room Branch (Chouteau & Manchester). These boys were playing pool and smoking in the pool room while waiting for papers . The smallest boy is 9 years old and sells until 9 P.M. (See also 1351-1352. 4 P.M.) Location: St. Louis, Missouri

Some of the children of a family of ten who must move out of the area being taken over by the Army in Caroline County, Virginia

1353 ----- A Pool Room Branch (Chouteau & Manchester). These boys were playing pool and smoking in the pool room while waiting for papers . The smallest boy is 9 years old and sells until 9 P.M. (See also 1351-1352. 4 P.M.) Location: St. Louis, Missouri.

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All these are shrimp-pickers in Dunbar, Lopez, Dukate Company. Youngest in photo are five and eight years of age. Location: Biloxi, Mississippi

All these are shrimp-pickers in Dunbar, Lopez, Dukate Company. Youngest in photo are five and eight years of age. Location: Biloxi, Mississippi

All these are shrimp-pickers in Dunbar, Lopez, Dukate Company. Youngest in photo are five and eight years of age. Location: Biloxi, Mississippi.

All these are shrimp-pickers in Dunbar, Lopez, Dukate Company. Youngest in photo are five and eight years of age. Location: Biloxi, Mississippi.

All these are shrimp-pickers in Dunbar, Lopez, Dukate Company. Youngest in photo are five and eight years of age. Location: Biloxi, Mississippi

All these are shrimp-pickers in Dunbar, Lopez, Dukate Company. The youngest boys are 5 and 6 years old. Location: Biloxi, Mississippi

All these are shrimp-pickers in Dunbar, Lopez, Dukate Company. The youngest boys are 5 and 6 years old. Location: Biloxi, Mississippi.

All these are shrimp-pickers in Dunbar, Lopez, Dukate Company. The youngest boys are 5 and 6 years old. Location: Biloxi, Mississippi.

All these are shrimp-pickers in Dunbar, Lopez, Dukate Company. The youngest boys are 5 and 6 years old. Location: Biloxi, Mississippi

All these are shrimp-pickers in Dunbar, Lopez, Dukate Company. Youngest in photo are five and eight years of age. Location: Biloxi, Mississippi.

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Picryl description: Public domain image of child labor, economic conditions, children workers, exploitation, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

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01/01/1911
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Hine, Lewis Wickes, 1874-1940, photographer
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Olga Schubert, 855 Gruenwald St. The little 5 yr. old after a day's work that began about 5:00 A.M. helping her mother in the Biloxi Canning Factory, begun at an early hour, was tired out and refused to be photographed. The mother said, "Oh, She's ugly." Both she and other persons said picking shrimp was very hard on the fingers. See also photo 2021. Location: Biloxi, Mississippi.

Victoria Borsa, 1223 Catherine St., Philadelphia. 4 year old berry picker. Brother 7 years old. While I was photographing them, the mother was impatiently urging them to "pick, pick." Whites Bog, Brown Mills, N.J. Location: Browns Mills, New Jersey.

Trampas, New Mexico. In the home of Juan Lopez, majordomo (mayor). Years ago, ancient hand-curved and painted santos hung on the walls in place of these cheap religious prints. Collectors have bought up almost all native art

Olga Schubert, 855 Gruenwald St. The little 5 yr. old after a day's work that began about 5:00 A.M. helping her mother in the Biloxi Canning Factory, begun at an early hour, was tired out and refused to be photographed. The mother said, "Oh, She's ugly." Both she and other persons said picking shrimp was very hard on the fingers. See also photo 2021. Location: Biloxi, Mississippi

Manuel, the young shrimp-picker, five years old, and a mountain of child-labor oyster shells behind him. He worked last year. Understands not a word of English. Dunbar, Lopez, Dukate Company. Location: Biloxi, Mississippi

Group picking shrimp at Biloxi Canning Co. Olga, five-year-old on the end was helping her mother. I tried to get her photo at home when they stopped working, but the child stubbornly refused to be taken. Her mother said, "She's ugly." but it seemed to me that the child could be expected to be tired out after work that began so early. Work was light and only a small crew was at work, but within an hour I found at factory and at the homes the following: (See label 2022) #2022 caption: ...Two children of five years. One of seven years.Two of eight years. One of nine. Two of ten. Two of eleven (one had been working at this factory two years). Three of twelve, (one working here 4 years and one two years). I do not believe this is a complete list of the youngsters Location: Biloxi, Mississippi

Maud Daly, five years old. Grace Daly, three years old. Each picks about one pot of shrimp a day for the Peerless Oyster Co. The youngest said to be the fastest worker. Location: Bay St. Louis, Mississippi

Nick Pilisotta, ten years old, 899 Fayard St. Works some in the Biloxi Canning Co. "I want to quit school and work steady. Make 50 cents a day. Made $1.30 one day last year when shrimp was big." Location: Biloxi, Mississippi

Johnnie, a nine-year-old oyster shucker. Man with pipe is a padrone who had brought these people from Baltimore for four years. He said, "I tell you I have to lie to 'em. Ther're never satisfied. Hard work to get them." He is boss of the shucking shed. Location: Dunbar, Louisiana

These are all workers in Richmond Hosiery Mills,. Location: Rossville, Georgia.

The dinner pail - Drawing. Public domain image.

The New school-mistress / drawn by Miss Jennie Brownscombe.

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children and adults laborers shrimp industry mississippi biloxi photographic prints shrimp pickers are shrimp pickers dunbar lopez dukate company dukate company photo eight years library of congress