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A crowd of negro oyster shuckers. On the Atlantic Coast the negroes are employed more than the whites, but they do not work the little ones so much. Varn & Platt Canning Co. Location: Bluffton, South Carolina.

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[1913] February.
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  1. African Americans
  2. Bluffton
  3. Cannery Workers
  4. Children
  5. Oyster Industry
  6. Photographic Prints
  7. Shucking
  8. South Carolina
  9. United States
  10. Women

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Flower Garden, H.S. Taft, St. Helena I[sland], S.C. Elsie Shaw, a 6 year old cartoner during the summer, Seacoast Canning Co., Factory #2. Her father is boss of cutting room in Factory #1. He asked me to take some photos of her, as he has her do a singing act in vaudeville in the winter, "and she's old enough now to go through the audience and sell her own photos." Location: Eastport, Maine. Elsie Shaw, a 6 year old cartoner in the summer, Seacoast Canning Co., Factory #2. Her father is boss of cutting room in Factory #1. He asked me to take some photos of her, as he has her do a singing act in vaudeville in the winter, "and she's old enough now to go through the audience and sell her own photos." Location: Eastport, Maine. View on Smith Plantation, near Beaufort, S.C. Planter's summer residence, no. 10 Negro quarters on Fripp Place, St. Helena Is. [i.e. Island], S.C. View on the Habersham Plantation, Port Royal Island, S.C. View on Walker's Plantation, Port Royal Island, S.C. Group school children Group of Negros on their way to the cotton field, St. Helena Is. [i.e. Island], S.C.
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