Josie 6, Bertha 6, Sophia 10, oyster shuckers Maggioni [...] Port Royal, SC – Historic Photo Reproduction
![Josie 6, Bertha 6, Sophia 10, oyster shuckers Maggioni [...] Port Royal, SC, [between 1909 and 1919] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/95/95fd1581ceba-L.webp)
(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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Josie 6, Bertha 6, Sophia 10, oyster shuckers Maggioni [...] Port Royal, SC
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The caption names Josie and Bertha, both six, and Sophia, ten, as oyster shuckers at Port Royal, South Carolina, working under a surname that is only partly legible in the record. The glass negative dates from roughly 1909 to 1919, when seafood packing houses along the South Atlantic coast often employed children for long hours of shucking. Reformers who documented such work pushed for limits, which helped lead to the federal Keating-Owen Child Labor Act of 1916, though the Supreme Court struck that law down in 1918. Streaks and blemishes on the glass come from the natural breakdown of its original coatings.
| Created / published | [between 1909 and 1919] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller |
| Genre | Glass negatives. |
| Notes | Title from unverified data provided by the National Photo Company on the negative or negative sleeve. Date from negatives in same range. Gift; Herbert A. French; 1947. This glass negative might show streaks and other blemishes resulting from a natural deterioration in the original coatings. Temp. note: Batch four. |
| Source | Library of Congress, National Photo Company Collection |
| Original scan | 4,406 × 6,070 px · prints to 15 × 20 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-NPC-248813 |
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