Child laborers shuck oysters for Alabama Canning Company in Bayou La Batre, Mobile County, in February 1911. This image, taken by renowned social-welfare advocate and photographer Lewis Hine, was part of a series commissioned by the National Child Labor Committee.
Child Oyster Shuckers in Bayou La Batre
Courtesy of the Library of Congress. Photograph by Lewis Wickes Hines.
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