Oyster shuckers photographed in Bayou La Batre in 1911 by noted social reformer and photographer Lewis Hine. Episcopal priest Edgar Gardner Murphy (1869-1913) was a lifelong advocate for child-labor reform, forming the Alabama Child Labor Committee in 1901 and in 1904 helping to organize the National Child Labor Committee.
Child Oyster Shuckers
Courtesy of the Library of Congress; photograph by Lewis Wickes Hine
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