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School located near the homes of the cannery workers. The teacher told me that only three of the cannery children attended her school, and they were not Baltimore people. Location: Bay St. Louis, Mississippi / L.W. Hine.
School located near the homes of the cannery workers. The teacher told me that only three of the cannery children attended her school, and they were not Baltimore people. Location: Bay St. Louis, Mississippi L.W. Hine
[School located near the homes of the cannery workers. The teacher told me that only three of the cannery children attended her school, and they were not Baltimore people.] Location: [Bay St. Louis, Mississippi] / L.W. Hine.
Central Public School. Only a short walk from the homes of the cannery workers, and yet only 4 children were to be found there. Location: Bay St. Louis, Mississippi / L.W. Hine.
Central Public School. Only a short walk from the homes of the cannery workers, and yet only 4 children were to be found there. Location: Bay St. Louis, Mississippi / L.W. Hine.
Public School. Found only 3 of the Baltimore cannery children were attending; 5 others had attended and dropped out. Location: Pass Christian, Mississippi L.W. Hine
Public School. Found only 3 of the Baltimore cannery children were attending; 5 others had attended and dropped out. Location: Pass Christian, Mississippi / L.W. Hine.
St. Paul's Parochial School, located within a stone's throw of the homes of the cannery workers, and the Sister in charge says that practically none of the children attend day school; that a few of them come for an hour at night for religious instruction. Location: Pass Christian, Mississippi / L.W. Hine.
St. Joseph's Academy. The assistant to the Father in charge told me that none of the cannery children attended the academy, although he admitted that most of them were Catholics. Location: Bay St. Louis, Mississippi L.W. Hine
School located near the homes of the cannery workers. The teacher told me that only three of the cannery children attended her school, and they were not Baltimore people. Location: Bay St. Louis, Mississippi L.W. Hine
Summary
Title from NCLC caption card.
In album: Canneries.
Hine no. 4089.
Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.
General information about the National Child Labor Committee collection is available at: loc.gov
Forms part of: National Child Labor Committee collection.
According to the 1900 US Census, a total of 1,752,187 (about 1 in every 6) children between the ages of five and ten were engaged in "gainful occupations" in the United States. The National Child Labor Committee, or NCLC, was a private, non-profit organization that served as a leading proponent for the national child labor reform movement. It headquartered on Broadway in Manhattan, New York. In 1908 the National Child Labor Committee hired Lewis Hine, a teacher and professional photographer trained in sociology, who advocated photography as an educational medium, to document child labor in the American industry. Over the next ten years, Hine would publish thousands of photographs designed to pull at the nation's heartstrings. The NCLC is a rare example of an organization that succeeded in its mission and was no longer needed. After more than a century of fighting child labor, it shut down in 2017.