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Group Photo 139 - Oyster chuckers - 1909

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•Title: Oyster shuckers at Apalachicola, Fla. This work is carried on by many young boys during busy seasons. This is a dull year so only a few youngsters were in evidence. Location: Apalachicola, Florida.

•Creator(s): Hine, Lewis Wickes, 1874-1940, photographer

•Date Created/Published: 1909 January.

•Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print

•Notes:

oTitle from NCLC caption card.

oAttribution to Hine based on provenance.

oIn album: Canneries.

oHine no. 563.

oCredit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.

oGeneral information about the National Child Labor Committee collection is available at: hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.nclc

oForms part of: National Child Labor Committee collection.

•Subjects:

oBoys.

oMen.

oLaborers.

oOyster industry.

oShucking.

oUnited States--Florida--Apalachicola.

•Collections:

oNational Child Labor Committee Collection

•Part of: National Child Labor Committee collection

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