Keywords: nara:arcid=523418 u.s. national archives usnationalarchives lewis hine lewishine blackandwhite monochrome photo border black and white Original Caption: 4 year old Mary, who shucks oysters, (two pots a day). Tends the baby when not working. 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 docks. Dunbar, La, February 1911 U.S. National Archives’ Local Identifier: 102-LH-2059 Photographer: Hine, Lewis Subjects: Child Labor National Child Labor Committee Working Conditions Factory Persistent URL: research.archives.gov/description/523418 Repository: Still Picture Records Section, Special Media Archives Services Division (NWCS-S), National Archives at College Park, 8601 Adelphi Road, College Park, MD, 20740-6001. For information about ordering reproductions of photographs held by the Still Picture Unit, visit: www.archives.gov/research/order/still-pictures.html Reproductions may be ordered via an independent vendor. NARA maintains a list of vendors at www.archives.gov/research/order/vendors-photos-maps-dc.html Access Restrictions: Unrestricted Use Restrictions: Unrestricted Original Caption: 4 year old Mary, who shucks oysters, (two pots a day). Tends the baby when not working. 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 docks. Dunbar, La, February 1911 U.S. National Archives’ Local Identifier: 102-LH-2059 Photographer: Hine, Lewis Subjects: Child Labor National Child Labor Committee Working Conditions Factory Persistent URL: research.archives.gov/description/523418 Repository: Still Picture Records Section, Special Media Archives Services Division (NWCS-S), National Archives at College Park, 8601 Adelphi Road, College Park, MD, 20740-6001. For information about ordering reproductions of photographs held by the Still Picture Unit, visit: www.archives.gov/research/order/still-pictures.html Reproductions may be ordered via an independent vendor. NARA maintains a list of vendors at www.archives.gov/research/order/vendors-photos-maps-dc.html Access Restrictions: Unrestricted Use Restrictions: Unrestricted |