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Raggedy Henry: 1912
... school, and Saturdays. Been working three years. Maggioni Canning Co., Port Royal, South Carolina." Glass negative by Lewis Wickes Hine ... 
 
Posted by Dave - 07/19/2014 - 11:00am -

February 1912. "Henry, 10-year-old oyster shucker who does five pots of oysters a day. Works before school, after school, and Saturdays. Been working three years. Maggioni Canning Co., Port Royal, South Carolina." Glass negative by Lewis Wickes Hine for the National Child Labor Committee. View full size. (The Gallery, Kids, Lewis Hine)
My Grandfather: 1915
... fleet of these ships and they were involved in the salmon canning industry in Alaska. Outbound from San Francisco, they hauled up ... 
 
Posted by Bob Burns - 10/25/2021 - 2:51pm -

My paternal grandfather (standing, far left) spent quite a lot of his life crewing on square-rigged ships (also known as "windjammers") out of San Francisco. These ships were owned and operated by Alaska Packers, which was a division of the Del Monte Corp (aka the California Packing Corporation). The company had a small fleet of these ships and they were involved in the salmon canning industry in Alaska. Outbound from San Francisco, they hauled up supplies for the canneries. On the return, they'd bring finished goods to San Francisco for eventual labeling and sale to retailer grocers. Although steam had largely replaced wind powered ships by the turn of the 20th century, Del Monte found it more economical to sail these old steel hulled sailing vessels up and down the Pacific coast. (ShorpyBlog, Member Gallery)
Four Pots a Day: 1913
... February 1913. Bluffton, S.C. Oyster shuckers at Lowden Canning. "Ten-year old Frank. Shucks four pots a day." View full size. ... 
 
Posted by Dave - 04/06/2008 - 6:53am -

February 1913. Bluffton, S.C. Oyster shuckers at Lowden Canning. "Ten-year old Frank. Shucks four pots a day." View full size. Photo by Lewis Wickes Hine. Oyster ShuckerMy variation on the old woodchuck tongue-twister: How many pots could a kid shucker shuck If a kid shucker could shuck lots? Sad, Yet HilariousYour tongue-twister fazes me! The sad irony of it makes me laugh hilariously, but also makes me cry because I'm forgetting the seriousness of it. [I want to go to there! - Dave] (The Gallery, Kids, Lewis Hine)
Cartoners, Eastport: 1911
... Some of the cartoners, not the youngest, at Seacoast Canning Co., Factory #2, Eastport, Maine. August 1911. Photograph by Lewis ... 
 
Posted by Dave - 09/07/2011 - 2:39pm -

Some of the cartoners, not the youngest, at Seacoast Canning Co., Factory #2, Eastport, Maine. August 1911. Photograph by Lewis Wickes Hine. View full size. (The Gallery, Kids, Lewis Hine)
Yes We Can Can: 1939
... daughter of Frederick Oliver, tenant purchase client, in canning with new pressure cooker." Medium format negative by Marion Post ... 
 
Posted by Dave - 05/03/2019 - 1:34pm -

June 1939. Summerton, South Carolina. "FSA home supervisor assisting wife and daughter of Frederick Oliver, tenant purchase client, in canning with new pressure cooker." Medium format negative by Marion Post Wolcott for the Farm Security Administration. View full size. And the corn is nextLooks like lima beans and maybe peaches are being put up here. And looking out that screen, corn will not be far behind. (The Gallery, Kitchens etc., M.P. Wolcott, Rural America)
Harvest Home: 1940
... onion and cabbage fields in picking, grading and canning." Medium format acetate negative by Jack Delano for the Farm Security ... 
 
Posted by Dave - 10/31/2018 - 1:59pm -

July 1940. "In the new home of a group of migrants just arrived at Onley, Virginia. Barracks, surrounded by barbed wire fence, house Negro agricultural workers from Florida who have come to work the Eastern Shore strawberry, onion and cabbage fields in picking, grading and canning." Medium format acetate negative by Jack Delano for the Farm Security Administration. View full size. Good for what ails youI guess someone had thyroid trouble. (The Gallery, Agriculture, Jack Delano)
Niagara Family Portrait: 1900
... Niagara-on-the-Lake, Canada. They operated the Union Jack Canning Company which during that period canned, under the Union Jack brand, ... 
 
Posted by Islander800 - 09/08/2017 - 8:31pm -

This is a portrait of our extended family circa 1900 at Niagara-on-the-Lake, Canada. They operated the Union Jack Canning Company which during that period canned, under the Union Jack brand, fruits and vegetables from the Niagara Peninsula such as peaches, pears, cherries, tomatoes and green beans. (Framed period labels of the cannery adorn our kitchen wall.) I remember my dad and his cousin Elizabeth from Niagara finding and opening a can of tomatoes from the cannery in the late sixties - it looked O.K - but nobody dared to try it. Second from left in the second row is my paternal grandfather, who ran a grocery store in Niagara from the early 1910s to the 1960s - seen here with me as a kid sitting on the front store steps in the late 1950s. Next to him, the child, I believe, is the future first head of Regional Niagara government in the late-1960s. View full size. (ShorpyBlog, Member Gallery)
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