- Titles The Skipper on the oyster barge, Bayou La Batre, Mobile Bay (Proper)
- Artist Lewis Hine, American, 1874 - 1940
- Medium gelatin silver print
- Dimensions sheet: 4 9/16 × 6 5/8 in. (11.6 × 16.8 cm) image: 4 9/16 × 6 5/8 in. (11.6 × 16.8 cm) mat: 16 × 20 in. (40.6 × 50.8 cm)
- Credit Line Collection of the Art Fund, Inc. at the Birmingham Museum of Art; Gift of John Hagefstration, AFI.102.2020
- Work Type photograph
- Classification Photographs
- Inscription Recto, written in pencil, bottom-right corner: 1649 Verso, written in pencil, top-right corner: 1694 [horizontal] Verso, written in pencil, central top: 1694 [vertical] Verso, written in pencil, central: The Skipper on the / oyster barge / Mobile Bay / Jul. 1911 [vertical]
- Provenance Lewis Hine (1874-1940), Mobile, Alabama, 1911. Dealer Laurence Miller Gallery, New York; purchased by John Hagefstration, Birmingham, Alabama, in 2017; gift to the Art Fund, Inc. at the Birmingham Museum of Art, Alabama, 2020