Daniel and the other two boys in this photo look like they have some tough work ahead of them. When the fishing boats were about to come in with their catch, the whistle would sound, and workers, whatever age, had to drop whatever they were doing and head down to the "fish factory," as the locals called it. The little boy on the left is probably having a hard time keeping up with the man who is dumping the fish on the table. And poor Daniel, with a big knife in his hand, is going to have to cut as many fish as he can (as fast as he can) without slicing off a finger. Other Hine photos at this factory show children as young as seven doing this kind of work.

It didn't take me long to find Daniel's death record and obtain his obituary from the library near the town in Maine where he died. It turned out that he had a living son with the same name. He lives in Waldoboro, Maine, about 175 miles southwest of Eastport. I called him up, and he had never seen the pictures.

He married Marion Nash on December 19, 1943. On August 5, 1996, he passed away at the age of 96. His wife passed away four years later at the age of 93.