From the Shorpy site. The site features some of the neatest old pictures from back in the late 1800s and early 1900s, and even better, they allow you to blow these up so they can be examined in great detail.
The site was named after Shorpy Higginbotham, who was born Dec. 23, 1896.
At age 14, he was a "greaser" on the tipple at the Bessie Mine, Alabama or at the Sloss-Sheffield Steel and Iron Co. The photo was taken in 1910 and he is covered in black.
His job was to carry two heavy pails of grease to be used on coal car tracks.
Shorpy died 17 years after the photo at the age of 31 in a mining accident.
And kids today think they have it rough.
Check out the site at www.shorpy.com
I Sure Didn't Have It That Hard. --DaCoot
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