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Oyster shuckers at work in Barataria Canning Company. Small girls working on right of photo are Gertrude Kron, five years old, Pauline ---, eight years old. Note the face of little Mildred Kron, near center of photo, three years old, works every day, mother said. Also small boy on left of photo who has dropped an oyster. See also photos 1973, 1977, 1997, 1976. Location: Biloxi, Mississippi

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Oyster shuckers at work in Barataria Canning Company. Small girls working on right of photo are Gertrude Kron, five years old, Pauline ---, eight years old. Note the face of little Mildred Kron, near center of photo, three years old, works every day, mother said. Also small boy on left of photo who has dropped an oyster. See also photos 1973, 1977, 1997, 1976. Location: Biloxi, Mississippi.

Group of oyster shuckers in Barataria Canning Co. In this group are Gertrude Kohn, five years old, and Pauline ---, eight years old. See also photos 1973, 1976, 1997, 1998. Location: Biloxi, Mississippi

Group of oyster shuckers in Barataria Canning Co. In this group are Gertrude Kohn, five years old, and Pauline ---, eight years old. See also photos 1973, 1976, 1997, 1998. Location: Biloxi, Mississippi.

A crowded landing-piece on the Salween River, Kadoe, Burma

Some of the boys (not the youngest working) in Brookside Cotton Mills. Many youngsters work here. Location: Knoxville, Tennessee.

Doffer boys in Bibb Mill No. 1, Macon, Ga. Location: Macon, Georgia

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A view of the Pennsylvania Breaker. The dust was so dense at times as to obscure the view. This dust penetrates the utmost recess of the boy's lungs. Location: South Pittston, Pennsylvania.

A view of the Pennsylvania Breaker. The dust was so dense at times as to obscure the view. This dust penetrates the utmost recess of the boy's lungs. Location: South Pittston, Pennsylvania.

A view of the Pennsylvania Breaker. The dust was so dense at times as to obscure the view. This dust penetrates the utmost recess of the boy's lungs. Location: South Pittston, Pennsylvania.

A view of Ewen Breaker of the Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Coal Co. The dust was so dense at times as to obscure the view. This dust penetrates the utmost recesses of the boys' lungs. (See also labels 1927 to 1930 for names of some of these.) Location: South Pittston, Pennsylvania

A view of Ewen Breaker of the Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Coal Co. The dust was so dense at times as to obscure the view. This dust penetrates the utmost recesses of the boys' lungs. (See also labels 1927 to 1930 for names of some of these.) Location: South Pittston, Pennsylvania

A view of Ewen Breaker of the Pennsylvania [Pennsylvania] Coal Co. The dust was so dense at times as to obscure the view. This dust penetrates the utmost recesses of the boys' lungs. (See also labels 1927 to 1930 for names of some of these.) Location: South Pittston, Pennsylvania.

A view of Ewen Breaker of the Pennsylvania [Pennsylvania] Coal Co. The dust was so dense at times as to obscure the view. This dust penetrates the utmost recesses of the boys' lungs. (See also labels 1927 to 1930 for names of some of these.) Location: South Pittston, Pennsylvania.

A view of Ewen Breaker of the Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Coal Co. The dust was so dense at times as to obscure the view. This dust penetrates the utmost recesses of the boy's lungs. (See labels 1927 to 1930 for names of some of these.) A kind of slave driver sometimes stands over the boys, prodding or kicking them into obedience. Location: South Pittston, Pennsylvania

A view of Ewen Breaker of the Pennsylvania [Pennsylvania] Coal Co. The dust was so dense at times as to obscure the view. This dust penetrates the utmost recesses of the boy's lungs. (See labels 1927 to 1930 for names of some of these.) A kind of slave driver sometimes stands over the boys, prodding or kicking them into obedience. Location: South Pittston, Pennsylvania.

A view of the Pennsylvania Breaker. The dust was so dense at times as to obscure the view. This dust penetrates the utmost recess of the boy's lungs. Location: South Pittston, Pennsylvania.

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01/01/1911
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Farmers in warehouse during the auction sale. Two bookmen on each side of the row follow the auctioneer and buyers calculating the amount of the sale by multiplying the price times the number of pounds. Mebane, Orange County, North Carolina. See subregional notes (Odum) November 9, 1939

Ojo Sarco, New Mexico. One-room school in an isolated mountainous Spanish-American community, which has eight grades and two teachers. Afternoon recess

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A black and white photo of a group of men, West Virginia. Farm Security Administration photograph.

Resting with the load at the head of the slope. Shaft #6 Pennsylvania Coal Co., Small boy is Jo Puma, a Nipper, 163 Pine Street. Jo's mother showed me the passport which shows Jo to be 14 years old, but he has no school certificate, although working inside the mine. Location: Pittston, Pennsylvania

Vance, a Trapper Boy, 15 years old. Has trapped for several years in a West Virginia Coal mine. $.75 a day for 10 hours work. All he does is to open and shut this door: most of the time he sits here idle, waiting for the cars to come. On account of the intense darkness in the mine, the hieroglyphics on the door were not visible until plate was developed. Location: West Virginia

Breaker boys working in Ewen Breaker of Pennsylvania Coal Co. For some of their names see labels 1927 to 1930. Location: South Pittston, Pennsylvania

Waiting for the semimonthly relief checks at Calipatria, Imperial Valley, California. Typical story: fifteen years ago they owned farms in Oklahoma. Lost them through foreclosure when cotton prices fell after the war. Became tenants and sharecroppers. With the drought and dust they came West, 1934-1937. Never before left the county where they were born. Now although in California over a year they haven't been continuously resident in any single county long enough to become a legal resident. Reason: migratory agricultural laborers

Marvine Colliery, Breaker No. 2, West side Boulevard Avenue, between East Parker Street & Route 380, Scranton, Lackawanna County, PA

Götlunda, Lunger. Västmanland Sverige. Public domain image.

Coal miners switching motor. Note live wires. The "Patch," Chaplin, West Virginia

Scott's Run, West Virginia. Miner returning from work at New Hill - There are no mine wash houses in West Virginia.... - NARA - 518393

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