"The Canner Kids of Baltimore, 1909 Baltimore’s oyster and vegetable canneries ran on children. “Canner Kids” started at 4am, shucked oysters or snipped beans for 14 hours, and slept in the cannery. Ages 4 to 14. No school. No gloves.
8-year-old Mamie “Bean” Kowalski was a bean snipper. Her job was to break off the ends – 2 tons per day to make $1. Her fingers bled into the beans. At night she hid under the tables and slept there because the walk to the tenement was too far.
In 1909, Lewis Hine photographed her. He asked her age. She said “I don’t remember.” He asked what she wanted to be. She said “I’d like to go to school.” The photo ran nationally with the caption “The Price of Beans.”
Public fury forced Maryland to pass its first child labor law in 1912. Mamie got to 4th grade before she had to work again. She kept Hine’s photo her whole life.
I couldn’t find this particular photo in his collection, but there are many like it, and one taken during the same month likely at the same cannery.
https://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/hine-photos.
I don’t know why following up, when you’re openly hostile, but there you go, turdlicker.
This picture is not by Hine. This is genAI, just own up to it, but don’t misattribute from ignorance. Philosophy Fuse is a FB slop page. They exaggerate and distort real stories to make them more emotionally manipulative. This particular image and the whole story is a fabrication. They first published it in june of this year and this particular picture has never been a part of Hine’s published works. This is a blatant if not intentional violation of the only rule on this community.
K