Planting an oyster park. Extensive oyster parks are maintained at Cancale, France, to care for bi-valves which have been harvested and not sold. When the tide is out the park is exposed ...
A wooden carving dedicated to "ladies of the oyster industry," in the Willapa River community of South Bend, Washington
Workers in oyster industry live in shacks like this. Mosquitoes breed in everpresent pools of water, Shellpile, New Jersey
Oyster industry
Workers in oyster industry live in shacks like this. Mosquitoes breed in everpresent pools of water, Shellpile, New Jersey
Oyster fleet at anchor. Over six hundred and fifty boats of all sizes and kinds are an engaged in the oyster fishing industry of Cancale, France. Each boat, irrespective of size, is ...
A profitable industry. Oyster fishing is the profitable and almost exclusive industry of the little village of Concale, France. This year oysters brought forty francs a thousand and every family worked at ...
Stereographs of the oyster and crab industry in Maryland
Express shipments of oysters leaving oyster house, Baltimore, Md., U.S.A.
An individual "Shucker" taking oyster from its shell, Oyster House, Baltimore, Md., U.S.A.
A young oyster fisher [?] Others smaller employed in busy season. Apalachicola, Fla. Randsey Summerford says he starts out at 4 A.M. one day, is out all night in the little oyster ...
Fred, a young oyster fisher; working on an oyster boat in Mobile Bay, the Reef, near Bayou La Batre, said he was fourteen, but not likely. Location: Bayou La Batre, Alabama.
Unloading oysters from merchant boat and wheeling into shucking room, oyster house, Baltimore, Md., U.S.A.
Henry, 10 year old oyster shucker who does five pots of oyster [sic] a day. Works before school, after school, and Saturdays. Been working three years. Maggioni Canning Co. Location: Port Royal, ...
Ten-year old Sephie, a young oyster shucker, says she does six pots of oysters a day. Her mother works also. "She don't go to school. Works all the time." Maggioni Canning Co. ...
Boy shucking oysters, he helped to catch. A few young boys are employed on the oyster boats and to shuck them but times are slack now. Apalachicola, Fla. Witness, Sara R. Hine. ...
10 year old Jimmie. Been shucking 3 years. 6 pots a day, and a 11 year old boy who shucks 7 pots. Also several members of an interesting family named Sherrica. Seven ...
Oyster Barge going after oysters in Mobile Bay. Location: Bayou La Batre, Alabama.
Alfred and Willie, two young oyster fishers in Mobile Bay. A few, but not many of these youngsters are found on the oyster boats. Location: Bayou La Batre, Alabama.
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 ...
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