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Snapshot

What If...
you had to clean shrimp all day long... and you were only five years old?


A five-year-old boy next to a pile of oyster shells.

Who:

Manuel, a shrimp picker, age 5, stands in front of a mountain of oyster shells.

Where:

Biloxi, Mississippi

When:

February 1911

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