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Some of the young shrimp-pickers working at the Dunbar, Lopez, Dukate Co., Youngest five and eight years old. Location: Biloxi, Mississippi

Some of the young shrimp-pickers working at the Dunbar, Lopez, Dukate Co., Youngest five and eight years old. Location: Biloxi, Mississippi.

Some of the young shrimp-pickers working at the Dunbar, Lopez, Dukate Co., Youngest five and eight 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

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.

Some of the young shrimp-pickers working at the Dunbar, Lopez, Dukate Co., Youngest five and eight years old. Location: Biloxi, Mississippi.

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01/01/1911
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7 year old Ferris. Tiny newsie who did not know enough to make change for investigator. There are still too many of these little ones in the larger cities. Location: Mobile, Alabama.

Eight-year old Jack on a Western Massachusetts farm. He is a type of child who is being overworked in many rural districts. See Hine Report, Rural Child Labor, August, 1915. Location: Western Massachusetts, Massachusetts.

Two of the workers in Merrimack Mills. See Hine report. Location: Huntsville, Alabama.

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.

Stringing milk tags (See 4916). Location: Newark, New Jersey

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

Some of the young boys working Pelzer, S.C. Mfg. Co. Some of these workers seem surely near 12 years. May 27, 1912. Location: Pelzer, South Carolina

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

Cocoanut Shaver - Kibbe's Factory. Jacob Futterman, 16 years, 108 Sharon St. Location: Boston, Massachusetts

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children and adults child laborers shrimp industry mississippi biloxi photographic prints shrimp pickers dunbar lopez dukate dukate co eight years child 8 years old united states history library of congress