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Shorpy Higginbotham, a "greaser" on the tipple at Bessie Mine, of the Sloss- Sheffield Steel and Iron Co. in Alabama. Said he was 14 years old, but it is doubtful. Carries two heavy pails of grease, and is often in danger of being run over by the coal cars. (Original caption.) Photograph by Lewis Wickes Hine. December 1910.

Shorpy.com is the 100-year-old photography blog that brings our ancestors back, at least to the desktop. What do they have to tell us? The site is named after Shorpy Higginbotham, a boy who worked in an Alabama coal mine near the turn of the century.

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