Unloading oysters on the dock. Alabama Canning Co.,. Location: Bayou La Batre, Alabama. – Vintage Print
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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A window into the past: Unloading oysters on the dock. Alabama Canning Co.,. Location: Bayou La Batre, Alabama., preserved in this historic photograph. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Unloading oysters on the dock. Alabama Canning Co.,. Location: Bayou La Batre, Alabama.
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Oysters are being unloaded onto the wharf at the Alabama Canning Co. in Bayou La Batre, a fishing village on Alabama's Gulf Coast, in this February 1911 view. The print is attributed to Lewis Hine, who photographed canneries and waterfront labor for the National Child Labor Committee in those years, and it is one of a group of his images of canning plants. Oyster packing was labor-intensive, with shucking and processing done largely by hand, so the dock scene shows how the catch moved from boat to cannery. The picture records a working waterfront that depended on seasonal harvests and on the crews who handled them.
| Created / published | 1911 February. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Genre | Photographic prints |
| Notes | Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Canneries. Hine no. 1994. No text recorded after final comma on caption card. |
| Subjects | Men. Cannery workers. Piers & wharves. Oyster industry.United States--Alabama--Bayou La Batre. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,102 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-116598 |
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