Organized Charity. In the Oyster Camps, Child Labor.

Photographer Lewis Wickes Hine (1874-1940)

Accession number 90.13.3.6

Unique identifier MNY26331

Description From the Personal collection of Jacob A. Riis.

Dated 1911

Inscription / technical details Pencilled on verso: Five-year-old Mary Earns 10 c a day shucking oysters in a Louisiana oyster cannery. Tends the baby when not working. Many young children are employed in these canneries all along t

Object Type photograph

Medium gelatin silver print

Signif Assoc Jacob A. (Jacob August) Riis (1849-1914)

File dimensions 14.0 in × 10.0 in at 300dpi
35.5 cm × 25.6 cm at 300dpi

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