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A Group of Young Fellows Working in a Cannery, In Indianapolis, Aug. 1908. Location: Indianapolis, Indiana

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Canneries. Hine no. 86. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Divis More

Boys in a Cannery, Indianapolis, Ind. Unloading new tomato cans from freight cars. Witness E.N. Clopper. Location: Indianapolis, Indiana

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Canneries. Hine no. 57. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Divis More

Noon Hour in an Indianapolis Cannery. Aug. 1908. Location: Indianapolis, Indiana

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Canneries. Hine no. 119. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Divi More

Noon hour at an Indianapolis Cannery. Aug. 1908. Location: Indianapolis, Indiana

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Canneries. Hine no. 130. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Divi More

Marie and Albert Kawalski. 615 S. Band St., Baltimore, Md. Albert is 10 and Marie 11 years old. They worked, with mother, last winter, shucking oysters for Varn & Beard Packing Co., Young Island, S.C. (near Charleston). Mrs. Kawalski did not have things represented to her correctly and she found that all the children that had fare paid were compelled to work for the company. Other smaller children worked some and went to school some. Maire and Albert have worked several summers in the berry, beans and tomato fields packing houses near Baltimore. (see my report, July 10, for further particulars). Location: Baltimore, Maryland

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Canneries. Hine no. 825. Text is cut off at bottom of caption card. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Libra More

Some of the workers in a Md. packing company. Location: Maryland

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Canneries. Hine no. 826. No place or date recorded on caption card. Probably July 1909 in Maryland, based on captions for photos More

School #2, Buffalo, N.Y. Vincent Cannici, 13 years old last summer. Ran apple machine in cannery, Niagara-on-the-Lake, Canada. Lost 9 weeks school in the fall. Did not make good in promotion. Angelo, Brimo, 11 years old last summer. Ran apple machine in cannery, $1.25 to $1.50 a day, worked sometimes until 9 or 10 p.m. Lost 15 weeks schooling. Is a repeater. Buffalo, New York (State)

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Canneries. Hine no. 1343. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Div More

Group of children from Canneries in School #3, Buffalo, N.Y. 1) Carlo Ciaravina, 124 State St., 8 years old. Worked on beans and corn in sheds at Albion, N.Y. Entered school December 5th. 2) Mike Miranda, 8 years old last summer. Stringing beans in the home at Forsetville. Entered school September 7th. 3) Louis Belilta, 61 Water St., 12 years old last summer. Worked part of the time snipping beans in the sheds at Collins, N.Y. 4) Rose Moreibella, 41 Peacock St., 11 years old last summer. Stringing beans part of the time in the sheds at North Collins and Cherry Creek, N.Y. 5) Josephine Favata, 62 Main St., 10 years old last summer. Said that when little sister slept, she husked corn and string beans in the big shed at Albion, N.Y. 6) Magaline Tutarchi, 62 Main St., 8 years old last summer. Stringing beans and shelling peas sometimes in the sheds at Mr. Morris, N.Y. 7) Bombe Regis, 69 Water St., 9 years old last summer. Stringing beans in the sheds. Entered school in September. 8) Rosa Guglinzza, Room 10, 62 Main Street, 10 years old last summer. Worked on berries, corn and beans in the sheds at Cherry Creek. Location: Buffalo, New York (State)

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Canneries. Hine no. 1337. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Div More

Rosa Sarosa, room 42, 62 Main Street, Buffalo, N.Y. 13 years old last summer. Sarah, 9 years old last summer. Jo, 6 years old, last summer. Worked in Albion Canning Factory on beans and tomatoes. When they worked all day the three earned $1.50, paid 8 cents and hour for all time including overtime, Rosa and Sarah worked up to 10 P.M. sometimes last summer (a poor one) other years until midnight. Rosa worked in factory. Sarah and Jo in sheds part of the time. Went out to Albion last of May and came back middle of November, losing nearly 15 weeks of school time. Location: Buffalo, New York (State)

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Canneries. Hine no. 1326. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Div More

Rose Sarosa, Room 42, 62 Main St., Buffalo, N.Y. 13 years old last summer. Sarah, 9 years old last summer. Jo, 6 years old last summer. Worked in Albion Canning Factory on beans and tomatoes. When they worked all day, the three earned $1.50, paid 8 cents an hour for all time, including over time. Rosa and Sarah worked up to 10 P.M. sometimes last summer (a poor one) other years until midnight. Rosa worked in factory. Sarah and Jo in sheds part of the time. Went out to Albion last of May and came back middle of November, losing nearly 15 weeks of school time. Location: Buffalo, New York (State)

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Canneries. Hine no. 1325. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Div More

Children from Grade 5, School #2, Buffalo, N.Y. All worked in Cannery last summer. Rose Cugino, 12 years old last summer. Worked on beans and corn in the sheds of Albion, sometimes until 9 P.M. Made 50 cents a day. Is making good in school work. Joseph Cangiamila, 11 years old last summer. Worked on beans and corn in the sheds until 8 P.M., sometimes at Gowanda. Lost 3 weeks school. Henry Panasoi, 11 years old last summer. Worked on beans and corn in the sheds sometimes into the evening at Gowanda. Lost 3 weeks schooling. Andrew Geraci, 13 years old last summer. Worked on beans and corn in the sheds and dropped tomatoes cans into machine, sometimes until 9 P.M. and 10 P.M., at Albion, N.Y. Made 75 cents to $1.00 a day. Lost 7 weeks of school, but is making good. Location: Buffalo, New York (State)

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Canneries. Hine no. 1340. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Div More

A group of girl workers at Greenabaum's Cannery, Seaford, Del. The girls in the front row are "cappers" and "layers." They range from 6 years of age up. Working from 10 to 12 hours per day. Among the unguarded belting machinery of the Cannery. Location: Seaford, Delaware

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Canneries. Hine no. 1598. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Div More

Boys and Girls form Canneries, School #3, Buffalo, N.Y. 1) Josephine Oliveri, 19 Peacock St., 12 years old last summer. String beans in shed at Cherry Creek, N.Y. 2) Carmelo Combina, 8 years old last summer. Out-door work Cherry Creek, N.Y. 3) Lucy Gatte, 11 years old last summer. Shells peas and hulls strawberries. 4) Millie Izzio, 202 Carroll St., 12 years old last summer. Worked on peas, beans, berries, and tomatoes in the sheds. 5) Cassio Conjetta, 58 Lloyd St., 9 years old last summer. Snipped beans and worked on corn, berries and tomatoes in the sheds at Forestville, N.Y. 6) Tony Arara, 96 Washington St., Worked on berries, beans and peas in sheds North Collins, and Hamburg, N.Y. 13 years old last summer. 7) Lewis Maseari, 8 years old last summer. Worked on corn, beans, peas, and grapes, in the shed, at Forrestville, N.Y. 8) Angolio Mirandi, 8 years old last summer. Husked corn, peas and beans in sheds North Collins, N.Y. 9) Leonard Boscaglia, 62 Main St., 8 years old last summer. Worked on ... 10) Lucy May, 8 years old last summer. Worked on beans, peas, and berries in the shed at Franklin. 11) Dan Quaratello, 22 State St., 12 years old last summer. Worked in sheds. 12) Mary Tagelliferio, 44 Perry St., 13 years old last summer. Worked in sheds. 13) Johgn Thomas, 71 State St., 14 years old last summer. Worked in sheds. 14) Angelio Jesso, 39 Main St., 12 years old last summer. Shed work. 15) Daniel George, 4 State St., 11 years old last summer. Worked in sheds. 16) Dominick Caggiana, 33 12 Burrell Place, 10 years old last summer. Shed work. 17) Carman Juggio, 43 Myrtle Ave., 10 years old last summer. Shed work. 18) Tony La Spazzi, 49 Scott St., 14 years old last summer. Location: Buffalo, New York (State)

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Canneries. Hine no. 1338. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Div More

Children from school No. 2 in the Italian district Terrace? nr. GeneSt. Many of these children spend their summer vacations in the canning and fruit picking settlements where their parents go to work during the season. Feb. 8, 1910, Buffalo, N.Y. Location: Buffalo, New York (State)

Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Canneries. Title from NCLC caption card for Hine no. 1220. Hine no. 1222. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints a More

2 boys at the filling machine in Cannon's Cannery, Bridgeville, Del. These boys place cans in the grove to be filled with peas. Work 10 hours per day, and when there is a good supply of peas they work 15 hours a day. The small boy is 9 years of age, at work the first season. The larger boy is 12, working his 2nd season. Location: Bridgeville, Delaware

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Canneries. Hine no. 1595. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Div More

Angelo Rizzo, 5 Trenton Ave., Buffalo, N.Y. Worked 5 months in sheds of Albion Canning. Canning, stringing beans. Was 10 years old last summer. Worked from 7 A.M. until 9 P.M. Returned to school September 27th, losing 2 weeks time. School record good. Location: Buffalo, New York (State)

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Canneries. Hine no. 1332. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Div More

Joseph Buonasari, 207 7th Street, Buffalo, N.Y. Second Grade, School #1. 12 years old last summer. Worked on beans and apples and tomatoes in sheds and factory, getting 50 cents a day, sometimes until 8 P.M. Parents sometimes work all night until 5 A.M. Entered School #1, January 11th from School #2. Location: Buffalo, New York (State)

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Canneries. Hine no. 1331. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Div More

Millie, 13 years old last summer. Ignatio, 9 years old last summer. Jo, 6 years old last summer. Paresse Family, 4 Fly St., Buffalo, N.Y. All three worked in the Albion Canning Factory in the sheds (Jo, only a little) on peas, beans and corn. Jo was too small to get husks off the corn so they stopped his working. Millie and Ignatio made 40 to 50 cents a day each, at 8 cents and hour because the work was slack. Returned to Buffalo the last of October. Went out the last of May, losing about 11 weeks of school time. Millie would not go to school when she came back because she was behind the rest of the class. Was found out by the C.O.S. in January and was reported to truant officer and sent to school. Location: Buffalo, New York (State)

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Canneries. Hine no. 1327. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Div More

A group sorting peas at the table in Ross's Cannery, Seaford, Del. The little fellow in the photo is a full fledged sorter. He is 5 years of age. Many such children work steadily in the Cannery, and some of them work at the machines. Location: Seaford, Delaware

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Canneries. Hine no. 1594. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Div More

Pannepinto Family, 116 Georgia St., Buffalo, N.Y. Attend School #1. Jo. was 7 years old last summer. Charley 12 years old last summer. Snipped beans and hulled strawberries in the sheds, Charley until 12 P.M. sometimes, Hamburg Canning Factory. Left school last of May and entered school October 18th, losing about 9 weeks of school. Location: Buffalo, New York (State)

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Canneries. Hine no. 1330. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Div More

Daisy Langford, 8 years of age, working at the capping machine in Ross's Cannery, Seaford, Del. (see photo crossed out) Edward F. Brown, Investigator. Location: Seaford, Delaware Photo by Lewis W. Hine

Title from NCLC caption card. In album: Canneries. Hine no. 1591. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. General information about the Nati More

Children from school No. 2 in the Italian district Terrace? nr. GeneSt. Many of these children spend their summer vacations in the canning and fruit picking settlements where their parents go to work during the season. Feb. 8, 1910, Buffalo, N.Y. Location: Buffalo, New York (State)

Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Canneries. Title from NCLC caption card for Hine no. 1220. Hine no. 1221. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints a More

Group of Cannery Workers, School #1, Buffalo, N.Y. (from left to right): 1) Rose Paralto, 12 years old last summer. Helped mother on strawberries, Canning Factory, Simcoe, Canada. Entered school, January 3d, 1910. Last year, school work excellent, this year not good. 2) Josephine Pellina, 10 years old last summer. Strings beans in sheds of Forestvillesic?, Cannery. Came to school in September. 3) Christian Cengo, 10 years old last summer. Worked stringing beans in sheds Forrestville Cannery sometimes until 8 or 9 P.M. 4) Anna Gengo, 10 years old last summer. Sheds of Forrestville Cannnery. 5) Metea Spana, 13 years old last summer. Worked on peas and beans in the sheds of Eden Center Canning Factory. 6) Josephine Leone, 12 years old last summer. Helped in the sheds at Barker Cannery. 7) Frances Imperllario, 11 years old last summer. Worked on berries Cherry Creek Factory. 8) Mary Lefesso, 12 years old last summer. Worked at Barker Canning Factory. Entered school October 22d. Location: Buffalo, New York (State)

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Canneries. Hine no. 1335. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Div More

Group of boys from canning factories. School #1, Buffalo, N.Y. (from left to right): 1) Frank Lefasso, 13 years old last summer. Worked in canning factory at Barker. 2) Anthony Traeisi?, 10 years old last summer. Worked on beans South Dayton, Cannery. 3) James Schillacer, 12 years old last summer. Earned 50 cents a day putting cans in holes in factory St. Catherines, Canada. 4) Peter Delsalvo, 13 years old last summer. Worked in the factory at Brant, N.Y. 5) Anthony Baraone, 11 years old last summer. Worked on apples, beans, tomatoes, in factory at Wilson, N.Y. 6) Thoma Laessi, 12 years old last summer. Worked on beans in sheds at Hamburg, N.Y. 7-9 A.M.; 3-5 P.M. 7) Joseph Lanca, 12 years old last summer. Strings beans in sheds. (All these boys worked on tomatoes.) Location: Buffalo, New York (State)

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Canneries. Hine no. 1336. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Div More

Exterior of 260 Terrace Street. Several Italian families, which spend the summer in the Cannery District, live here. Location: Buffalo, New York (State)

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Canneries. Hine no. 1224. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Div More

Group from school #1, Buffalo, N.Y. (from left to right) 1. Michael Giglia, 48 Carolina St., 10 years old last summer. The whole family string beans at S. Haven and Albion, N.Y. 2. Anthony Litterie, 79 Seventh St., 9 years old last summer. Worked from 7 A.M. to 6 P.M., sometimes in the evening stringing beans and hulling strawberries in sheds, N. Collins, N.Y. 3. Vito Bargio, 48 Carolina St., 12 years old last summer. Stringing beans in sheds of Albion, N.Y. and returned to school Oct. 17th. 4. Ben Madonia, 205 Seventh St., 9 years old last summer. Stringing beans in sheds, Hamburg, N.Y., sometimes until 8 P.M. Entered school on time, good record. 5. Sam Pecararo, 107 Trenton Ave., 9 years old last summer. Stringing beans in sheds, Hamburg, N.Y. Worked until 8 P.M. sometimes. Entered school Nov. 18th, but has good record, nevertheless. Buffalo, N.Y. 6. Charles Ponnepinto, 106 Seventh Ave., 8 years old last summer. Location: Buffalo, New York (State)

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Canneries. Hine no. 1333. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Div More

Name: Children from school No. 2 in the Italian district Terrace? nr. Genesee St. Many of these children spend their summer vacations in the canning and fruit picking settlements where their parents go to work during the season. Feb. 8, 1910, Buffalo, N.Y. Location: Buffalo, New York (State)

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Canneries. Hine no. 1220. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Div More

Another general view of the "hulling" station of A.J. Johnson at Seaford, Del. Location: Seaford, Delaware

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Canneries. Hine no. 1571. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Div More

Home of Rosario Guarino, 13 Mechanic Street. (Boy on left.) These people spend the summer at one of the Canning Centres. Location: Buffalo, New York (State)

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Canneries. Hine no. 1227. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Div More

A group of workers at Greenabaum's Cannery, Seaford, Del. 1 Child is 7 years of age. 4 Children are 12 years of age. 1 Child is 13 years of age. 4 Children are 15 years of age. 3 of these children are working 1 year. 1 of these children is working 2 years. 3 of these children are working 3 years. 2 of these children are working 4 years. 1 of these children is working 5 years. 1 of these children is working 6 years. Greenabaum's Cannery is considered one of the largest in the United States. A few years ago they canned 1,000,000 cans of peas in 4 days. This information was given by the bookkeeper of the Cannery. Edward F. Brown, Investigator. Seaford, Del. June 2, 1910. Location: Seaford, Delaware Photo by Lewis W. Hine

Title from NCLC caption card. In album: Canneries. Hine no. 1597. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. General information about the Nati More

5 year old Helen and her stepsisters "hulling" strawberries at Johnson's Hulling Station, Seaford, Del. Helen is an orphan, who one month after death of her widowed mother, was adopted by the Hope family of Seaford, Del. This is her 2d season at Johnson's Hulling Station. On the day of the investigation she started working at 6 A.M. and at 6 P.M. the same day Helen was still hulling strawberries. Location: Seaford, Delaware

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Canneries. Hine no. 1573. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Div More

Children in Grade 4, School #2, Buffalo, N.Y. All of them worked in Cannery Sheds at Albion, Wilson, Hamburg, etc., last summer. Ages run from 10 to 13 years. Entered school late. Location: Buffalo, New York (State)

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Canneries. Hine no. 1341. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Div More

A group of girl workers in Greenabaum's Canneries, Seaford, Del. These girls gave their ages as 10, 13 and 13. The 10 year old girl is working her first season while the two girls of 13 are working 2nd season. They work from 7 A.M. to 6 P.M., and when there is a good supply of peas they work until late at night. Location: Seaford, Delaware

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Canneries. Hine no. 1599. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Div More

Adeline, 12 years old, earns more than her mother. Get 1 cents a pound for snipping beans? at the sheds at Hamburg Canning Factory. Geno was 8 years old, last summer. These two and mother and made 70 to 80 cents a day. Much of this money goes to pay rent for ... in Buffalo, that is reserved through the summer. All three worked in sheds. They went to the country the last of May returned to Buffalo middle of October, losing about 9 weeks of school. Attend School #2. Location: Buffalo, New York (State)

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Canneries. Hine no. 1328. Portion of text cut off on caption card. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Librar More

Family group hulling strawberries in the sun at Johnson's Hulling station, Seaford, Del. Note the child of about 5 years of age in the centre of the picture with sharp, long knife hulling berries. Location: Seaford, Delaware

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Canneries. Hine no. 1572. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Div More

All these work in Peerless Oyster Co. Had to get the photo while bosses were at dinner, as they refused to permit children in the photos. Location: Bay St. Louis, Mississippi

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Canneries. Hine no. 2038. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Div More

Minnie Thomas, a 9 year old girl, works regularly in Seacoast Canning Co., Factory #7, Eastport, Me., mostly in the packing room, and when very busy works nights. Cuts some, and also cartons. Her mother said, "Some of the children cut their fingers half off." Her father and grandfather are in the factory. She lives in Grand Manan in the winter with her aunt, father and mother live here. She says she earns $2.00 some days packing, not so much when she cartons. "Only made $1.70 all last week." Location: Eastport, Maine

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Canneries. Hine no. 2459. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Div More

Oyster fleet fishing on the reefs. Location: Mobile Bay, Alabama

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Canneries. Hine no. 1962. No text recorded after final comma on caption card. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collect More

"I cut my finger off, cutting sardines the other day." Seven year old Byron. (See photo of family, #2353, and label.) Location: Eastport, Maine

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Canneries. Hine no. 2447. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Div More

George Goodell, and butcher knife used by many children. Location: Eastport, Maine

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Canneries. Hine no. 2456. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Div More

Hiram Pulk, 9 years old, cuts some in Seacoast Canning Co., Factory #1. "I aint very fast--only about five boxes a day. They pay five cents a box." Location: Eastport, Maine

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Canneries. Hine no. 2427. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Div More

Phoebe Thomas, a little while after the accident. Location: Eastport, Maine

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Canneries. Hine no. 2445. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Div More

Two of the young oyster shuckers and baby-tenders going home at 5:00 P.M. after a day begun at 4:00 A.M. and spent shucking oysters and tending baby. Smallest one is "Teeny." Other is Sophie. Location: Pass Christian, Mississippi

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Canneries. Hine no. 2019. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Div More

Pile of refuse, waste, and salt water in which these sardine workers stand at times. Location: Eastport, Maine

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Canneries. Hine no. 2405. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Div More

Some of the cartoners, not the youngest, at Seacoast Canning Co., Factory #2. (See Hine report.) Location: Eastport, Maine

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Canneries. Hine no. 2412. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Div More

Oyster fishing on the reef. Found a few young boys about 12 years old, but not many. Location: Mobile Bay, Alabama

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Canneries. Hine no. 1966. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Div More

Wilfred Clark, 10 years old, 24 Key St., going home at noon, after cutting five boxes of fish during the morning. Incidently, he cuts his fingers. See left fore-finger. Two other boys with him had fingers badly cut and healed up. Location: Eastport, Maine

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Canneries. Hine no. 2430. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Div More

Group of oyster-shuckers working in Alabama Canning Co. Location: Bayou La Batre, Alabama

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Canneries. Hine no. 1992. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Div More

General view of shucking shed. Location: Dunbar, Louisiana

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Canneries. Hine no. 2060. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Div More

Little Nettie ?, a regular oyster-shucker in Alabama Canning Co. She speaks no English. Note the condition of her shoes, caused by standing on the rough shells so much, a common sight. Location: Bayou La Batre, Alabama

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Canneries. Hine no. 1988. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Div More

Frank Obin, eight years old. Shucks oysters at Pass Christian. I found him asleep on the floor of the shed at 4 o'clock one morning. Location: Pass Christian, Mississippi

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Canneries. Hine no. 2005-A. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs D More

Noon hour at Priscilla Knitting Mills, Meridian, Miss. Some of the girls. Location: Meridian, Mississippi

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Canneries. Hine no. 1967. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Div More

Sardine boy. Location: Eastport, Maine

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Canneries. Hine no. 2458. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Div More

Young oyster shuckers. Location: Pass Christian, Mississippi

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Canneries. Hine no. 2017. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Div More

Canning Factory of the Alabama Canning Co. Location: Bayou La Batre, Alabama

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Canneries. Hine no. 1607. No text recorded after final comma. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of More

Elsie Shaw, a 6 year old cartoner in the summer, Seacoast Canning Co., Factory #2. Her father is boss of cutting room in Factory #1. He asked me to take some photos of her, as he has her do a singing act in vaudeville in the winter, "and she's old enough now to go through the audience and sell her own photos." Location: Eastport, Maine

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Canneries. Hine no. 2409. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Div More

One of the young oyster shuckers. Location: Pass Christian, Mississippi

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Canneries. Hine no. 2016. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Div More

Carrie Dietrick, ten years old. Raymond, seven years old. Pick shrimp at the Peerless Oyster Co. Location: Bay St. Louis, Mississippi

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Canneries. Hine no. 2049. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Div More

Nan de Gallant, 4 Clark St., Eastport, Maine, 9 year old cartoner, Seacoast Canning Co., Factory #2. Packs some with her mother. Mother and two sisters work in factory. One sister has made $7 in one day. During the rush season, the women begin work at 7 a.m., and at times work until midnight. Brother works on boats. The family comes from Perry, Me., just for the summer months. Work is very irregular. Nan is already a spoiled child. Location: Eastport, Maine

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Canneries. Hine no. 2406. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Div More

Howard Simmons and Joe Elvis, two of the smallest here, both shuck oysters in Barataria Canning Co. Location: Biloxi, Mississippi

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Canneries. Hine no. 2001-A. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs D More

Group of workers in a canning factory. Location: Eastport, Maine

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Canneries. Hine no. 2426. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Div More

All these pick shrimp at the Oyster Co. I had to take photo while bosses were at dinner as they refused to permit the children to be in photos. Out of 60 workers, 15 were apparently under 12 years. Location: Bay St. Louis, Mississippi

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Canneries. Hine no. 2039. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Div More

All these children were shucking oysters and tending babies at the Pass Christian Company. (Dunbar, Lopez, Dukate Co.) before daybreak and until about 5 P.M. Photos taken at noon in absence of Supt., who permits no photos on account of Child Labor agitation. Location: Pass Christian, Mississippi

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Canneries. Hine no. 2009. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Div More

All these children (except babies) shuck oysters and tend babies at the Pass Packing Co. I saw them all at work there long before daybreak. Photos taken at noon in the absence of the Supt. who refused me permission because of Child Labor agitation. Factory belongs to Dunbar, Lopez, Dukate Co. Location: Pass Christian, Mississippi

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Canneries. Hine no. 2008. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Div More

Four-year-old Mary Kosco, Shucks oysters at Dunbar. (See photo 2050). Location: Dunbar, Louisiana

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Canneries. Hine no. 2063. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Div More

Richard Mills, 8 years old, showing a severely cut finger. Is a cutter in Eastport, Me., canneries. Location: Eastport, Maine

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Canneries. Hine no. 2407. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Div More

Shucking oysters in the Alabama Canning Company (Dunbar Lopez, Dukate Co.) Small boy on left end is Mike Murphy, ten years old, and from Baltimore. Location: Bayou La Batre, Alabama

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Canneries. Hine no. 1985. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Div More

Allen Chaffey, 9 years old, 37 Clark St., Eastport, Me., helps mother pack in Seacoast Canning Co., Factory #1. Walter Omar, 8 years old, 4 Clark Street, cuts. Location: Eastport, Maine

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Canneries. Hine no. 2411. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Div More

Maud Daly, five years old. Grace Daly, three years old. Pick shrimp at the Peerless Oyster Co. Their mother said they both help, and their sister said the little one worked the fastest. Many little ones like them work here. Location: Bay St. Louis, Mississippi

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Canneries. Hine no. 2035. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Div More

Oyster boats loading the barge, The Reef. Location: Mobile Bay, Alabama

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Canneries. Hine no. 1964. No text recorded after final comma on caption card. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collect More

Housing conditions in the settlement of workers in Alabama Canning Co. Two families to a house, but they are separated. Housing conditions fairly good. Location: Bayou La Batre, Alabama

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Canneries. Hine no. 1996. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Div More

Oyster shuckers in Dunbar Cannery. Location: Dunbar, Louisiana

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Canneries. Hine no. 2052. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Div More

A prospective sardine worker, one of the Goodell family. (See Photo #2433). Location: Eastport, Maine

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Canneries. Hine no. 2434. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Div More

Sardine canneries at Eastport, Maine. Location: Eastport, Maine

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Canneries. Hine no. 2418. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Div More

Oyster-shuckers working in Alabama Canning Company. From 7 years upward. Location: Bayou La Batre, Alabama

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Canneries. Hine no. 1991. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Div More

Annie Delcher, eight-year-old oyster shucker from Baltimore. Location: Dunbar, Louisiana

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Canneries. Hine no. 2065. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Div More

5 year old Preston, a young cartoner in a Maine Canning Co. I saw him at work different times during the day - at 7 a.m., in the afternoon and at 6 p.m., and he kept at it very faithfully for so young a worker. Location: Eastport, Maine

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Canneries. Hine no. 2414. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Div More

All these pick shrimp at the Peerless Oyster Co. I had to take photo while bosses were at dinner as they refused to permit children to be in photos. Out of 60 workers, 15 were apparently under 12 years. Location: Bay St. Louis, Mississippi

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Canneries. Hine no. 2040. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Div More

These little ones, and many others, work in the Peerless Oyster Co. Location: Bay St. Louis, Mississippi

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Canneries. Hine no. 2036. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Div More

Mike Murphy, a young oyster-shucker, ten years old. Alabama Canning Co. From Baltimore. Location: Bayou La Batre, Alabama

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Canneries. Hine no. 1993. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Div More

Fishing boats loading the barge on the reef. Location: Mobile Bay, Alabama

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Canneries. Hine no. 1963. No text recorded after final comma on caption card. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collect More

Jamsie, a six-year-old shucker. Shucks one pot a day. Location: Dunbar, Louisiana

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Canneries. Hine no. 2066. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Div More

Small boy on the floor is Johnnie Schraker, 8 years old, earns 45 cents a day, been at it three years. Note how they stand on the rough, sharp shells. Alabama Canning Co. Location: Bayou La Batre, Alabama

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Canneries. Hine no. 1987. No text recorded after final comma on caption card. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collect More

Walter Kitosky, seven year old oyster shucker. Location: Pass Christian, Mississippi

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Canneries. Hine no. 2009-A. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs D More

Maud Daly, five years old. Grace Daly, three years old. Pick shrimp at the Peerless Oyster Co. Their mother said they both help. Their sister said the little one was the fastest. Many other little ones like them working here. Location: Bay St. Louis, Mississippi

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Canneries. Hine no. 2034. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Div More

Mildred Griffiths, 9 Pleasant St., 13 yrs. old. A regular packer in Blanchard's Sardine Factory. Makes $1.00 to $2.00 a day. Sometimes works until midnight. Location: Eastport, Maine

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Canneries. Hine no. 2451. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Div More

Joey Stubeck, five years old. Shucks some at Pass Christian. Location: Pass Christian, Mississippi

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Canneries. Hine no. 2006-A. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs D More

All are oyster shuckers in the Dunbar Cannery. Began work about 3:00 A.M. and worked until about 5:00 P.M. with half an hour for lunch. The great hill of shells is only part of the season's product. Location: Dunbar, Louisiana

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Canneries. Hine no. 2055. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Div More

Oyster Barge going after oysters in Mobile Bay. Location: Bayou La Batre, Alabama

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Canneries. Hine no. 1608. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Div More

Martin Stevens, Any i.e., Amy? Andy? Schmidt, Will Schmidt, Frank Kelly, all shuck oysters. Location: Pass Christian, Mississippi

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Canneries. Hine no. 2008-A. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs D More

Three young cutters who work in the Seacoast Canning Co., Factory #4, Eastport, Me. They work at night when the rush is on. Youngest is Rob Collins, 10 years old; next is Dan Collins, 11 years; next is Milton Shannon. All live on South Clark Street. Location: Eastport, Maine

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Canneries. Hine no. 2424. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Div More

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

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Canneries. Hine no. 2041. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Div More

Shrimp-pickers in Peerless Oyster Co. Photo taken just as they stood. On other side of the shed, still younger children were working. Out of sixty working (only half were there) I counted fifteen apparently under twelve years old. Some three, four, and five years old were picking too. Parents acknowledged ages and fact that they worked some. Boss said they went to work at 3:00 A.M., and would quit about 3 or 4 P.M. Location: Bay St. Louis, Mississippi

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Canneries. Hine no. 2033. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Div More

Lillian Dambrinio, an eleven-year-old shrimp picker in Peerless Oyster Co. She is an American and lives here. Says picking makes her hands sore. (Note the condition of her shoes. One worker told me, "The acid in the shrimp eats the shoes off your feet.") She says she earns a dollar a day when shrimp are big. Goes to school, but not when factory is busy. Location: Bay St. Louis, Mississippi

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Canneries. Hine no. 2044. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Div More

In center of the picture is Phoebe Thomas, 8 year old Syrian girl, running home from the factory all alone, her hand and arm bathed with blood, crying at the top of her voice. She had cut the end of her thumb nearly off, cutting sardines in the factory, and was sent home alone, her mother being busy. The loss of blood was considerable, and might have been serious. (See succeeding photos.) Location: Eastport, Maine

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Canneries. Hine no. 2444. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Div More

Byron's cut finger. (See also #2453, #2435.) Location: Eastport, Maine

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Canneries. Hine no. 2448. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Div More

Housing conditions in the settlement of Dunbar. They are better than the average. See church in distance. Have their own jail. Houses and wood furnished. Location: Dunbar, Louisiana

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Canneries. Hine no. 2057. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Div More

Mary Kosco, four-year-old shucker. (See photo 2050). Location: Dunbar, Louisiana

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Canneries. Hine no. 2064. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Div More

Phoebe's thumb Phoebe Thomas, a week after the accident. She was back at the factory that day, using the same big knife. Location: Eastport, Maine

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Canneries. Hine no. 2449. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Div More

George Goodell, going home Sunday morning, after cutting a few boxes of sardines. When the work rushes, they have to work Sundays and nights, even the little ones. (See other photos.) Location: Eastport, Maine

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Canneries. Hine no. 2457. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Div More