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

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• 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
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• Museum of Photographic Arts 1 photo / illustration
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• State Library of Queensland 1 photo / illustration
• Smithsonian Institution 1 photo / illustration

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

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.

Belgian women in oyster beds (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

• common cup said:

  If these women are Belgian, then I am an Eskimo.....

• Jaime said:

  [http://www.flickr.com/photos/lescatalpas] I don't know. I enlarged the high res version of the photo and all the women have European faces.

• godelieve b said:

  there aren't mountains on the belgian coast ??!!!

• Christian Ford said:

  The headgear and the topography seem more like Brittany to my eye.

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.