Henry Sharpe Higginbotham, better known as Shorpy Higginbotham (November 23, 1896 — January 25, 1928)
was a
laborer in an
Alabama coal mine in the early twentieth century. He served in
World War I before returning to the mines, where he was killed by a falling rock in 1928.
Higginbotham was the subject of a series of photographs by
Lewis Hine that showed him as a boy working in the dangerous environment of a coal mine.
He is the namesake of the historical photography blog
Shorpy.com, where he has become a symbol of
child labor in the United States.
References
Child labour
Child labor in the United States
1896 births
1928 deaths
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