Three Young Cutters at Seacoast Canning Co., Factory #4, photograph by Lewis Hine, Eastport, Maine, August 1911. Courtesy of the Library of Congress.
Three Young Cutters at Seacoast Canning Co., Factory #4, photograph by Lewis Hine, Eastport, Maine, August 1911. Courtesy of the Library of Congress.
These boys, ages 10 to 12, worked regularly at the canning factory. New York photographer Lewis Hine quit his teaching job and went to work at the National Child Labor Committee which documented children’s working conditions. Hine also focused on collecting the children’s stories. He spent August 1911 in sardine packing plants at Eastport and Lubec, Maine.