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Shorpy Higginbotham: 1910

Submitted by Dave on Fri, 02/14/2014 - 10:46am.
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        On Shorpy.com's seventh birthday, a look back at our namesake, the teenage mine greaser Shorpy Higginbotham, shown here in 1910 at age 14. His life was cut short by a mine accident in 1928, when he was crushed by a rock. December 1910. Jefferson County, Alabama. "Shorpy Higginbotham, a 'greaser' on the tipple at Bessie Mine, of the Sloss-Sheffield Steel and Iron Co. Said he was 14 years old, but it is doubtful. Carries two heavy pails of grease, and is often in danger of being run over by the coal cars." Photograph by Lewis Wickes Hine for the National Child Labor Committee. View full size.

        On Shorpy.com's seventh birthday, a look back at our namesake, the teenage mine greaser Shorpy Higginbotham, shown here in 1910 at age 14. His life was cut short by a mine accident in 1928, when he was crushed by a rock.

December 1910. Jefferson County, Alabama. "Shorpy Higginbotham, a 'greaser' on the tipple at Bessie Mine, of the Sloss-Sheffield Steel and Iron Co. Said he was 14 years old, but it is doubtful. Carries two heavy pails of grease, and is often in danger of being run over by the coal cars." Photograph by Lewis Wickes Hine for the National Child Labor Committee. View full size.

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Congrats and Happy Birthday to Shorpy.com! What a wonderful site it is.

I was going to cut you folks a birthday check for, let's say, $1 per site visit, $5 for every comment you've allowed me to post, $10 for every comment of mine you had the good judgement not to post, and $15 for every fact I've learned on your site, but then I realized how embarrassing it would be to have a check of that size bounce.

So I send you my best wishes and thanks instead.

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Hope

Submitted by switzarch on Fri, 02/14/2014 - 4:14pm.

Shorpy would be a bit mystified at the technology involved, but pleased with the interest this site has aroused for him and others from our past. Here's to the next seven and even more to come. And, Thank You, Dave!

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Happy Birthday Shorpy -- and at least on this blog, you'll live on to have many, many more... we love you, man.

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