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Crab pickers at seafood processing plant, Crisfield

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Photograph of crab pickers at a seafood processing plant in Crisfield, Maryland. African American women sit around huge tables that contain piles of steamed hard-shelled blue crabs, picking the meat from the crabs and depositing it into small metal cans. Discards and waste go into metal tubs sitting on the floor.
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Digital Maryland

Keywords

  1. African American Women Employees
  2. African Americans
  3. Canned Crab Meat
  4. Crab Meat
  5. Crisfield
  6. Fishery Processing Plants
  7. Maryland
  8. Preservation
  9. Women

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