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31 photos and 5 illustrations tagged oysters, from 12 members of Flickr Commons.

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• florida
• apalachicola
• statelibraryandarchivesofflorida
• publicdomain
• labor
• franklincounty
• bldigital
• mechanicalcurator
• dredging
• oyster
• libraryofcongress
• xmlns:dc=httppurlorgdcelements11
• work
• 1950s
• seafoodindustry
• tallahasseedemocrattallahasseefloridanewspaper
• seafood
• reefs
• barges
• dredges
• houstonpipelinecompany
• photographs
• photoalbums
• children

Members using this tag

• Florida Memory 12 photos & illustrations
• The Library of Congress 4 photos & illustrations
• British Library 4 photos & illustrations
• SMU Libraries Digital Collections 3 photos & illustrations
• Australian National Maritime Museum on The Commons 3 photos & illustrations
• Mennonite Church USA Archives 2 photos & illustrations
• National Library of Medicine 2 photos & illustrations
• Miami University Libraries - Digital Collections 2 photos & illustrations
• Museum of Photographic Arts 1 photo / illustration
• LSE Library 1 photo / illustration
• State Library of Queensland 1 photo / illustration
• Smithsonian Institution 1 photo / illustration

Conversations

Here’s a selection of the conversations happening on these photos & illustrations:

Apalachicola River/Water Marks

from Florida Memory

• caoseducado said:

  Lovely! A time gone by in all its splendor!

• Tomasz said:

  nice ;)

• Chris Johnson said:

  oh, this is why having video on flickr rocks, where else would you be able to come upon something like this. thank you!

Three-wheeled Mail Collection Motorcycle

from Smithsonian Institution

• 1 older comment, and then…
• hobvias sudoneighm said:

  This image has been used in the indicommons.org post: Delivering the Mail
  
  

• stahrman said:

  Humm, if the gas prices go up again, the Postal Service might revert back to this type of delivery.

• John said:

  This pic would be enjoyed by members of this group: www.flickr.com/groups/3wheels/pool/

• mandy beeson said:

  Brilliant photo

• James Zaworski said:

  cute.

Four-year-old Mary, who shucks two pots of oysters a day at Dunbar. Tends the baby when not working ... Location: Dunbar, Louisiana (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

• skillful north said:

  And people yearn for the 'good ole days' Not me.

• Ang Wickham said:

  amazing history.

• Workable Stone said:

  [http://www.flickr.com/photos/toots] You got that right! In addition to intolerable working conditions, those oysters went to market after being handled by a woman who was also tending a sick baby.

• Retired at last said:

  [http://www.flickr.com/photos/toots] They all seem to think they'd be the ones with the servants, never that these were the conditions of life for the majority.

• Cobra0435 said:

  [http://www.flickr.com/photos/toots] Hungry people are not picky about their work. Those were hard times. We should be thankful we have it so good. There are still people around the world that eat whatever the can find, starving and malnourished.