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![10 year old Jimmie. Been shucking 3 years. 6 pots a day, and a 11 year old boy who shucks 7 pots. Also several members of an interesting family named Sherrica. Seven of them are in this factory. The father, mother, four girls shuck and pack. Older brother steams. 10 year old boy goes to school. Been in the oyster business 5 years. Father worked for 25 years in the Pennsylvania Coal Mine, and the oldest brother there[?] They said they liked the oysters business better because the family makes more. Varn & Platt Canning Co. Location: Bluffton, South Carolina.](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn4/L3Bob3RvLzE5MTMvMDEvMDEvMTAteWVhci1vbGQtamltbWllLWJlZW4tc2h1Y2tpbmctMy15ZWFycy02LXBvdHMtYS1kYXktYW5kLWEtMTEteWVhci1vbGQtYm95LTEtNjQwLmpwZw%3D%3D/40/31/webp "10 year old Jimmie. Been shucking 3 years. 6 pots a day, and a 11 year old boy who shucks 7 pots. Also several members of an interesting family named Sherrica. Seven of them are in this factory. The father, mother, four girls shuck and pack. Older brother steams. 10 year old boy goes to school. Been in the oyster business 5 years. Father worked for 25 years in the Pennsylvania Coal Mine, and the oldest brother there[?] They said they liked the oysters business better because the family makes more. Varn & Platt Canning Co. Location: Bluffton, South Carolina.")
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Group of boys working in Richmond Spinning Mill, East Lake. Street Bretzau, with bandaged finger, in centre. Location: Chattanooga, Tennessee.
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Picryl description: Public domain image of a child labor, factory, plant, manufacture, industrial facility, early 20th-century industrial architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
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Date
01/01/1910
Contributors
Hine, Lewis Wickes, 1874-1940, photographer
Location
Chattanooga (Tenn.), 35.04556, -85.30972
Source
Library of Congress
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No known restrictions on publication.
