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The six plane factories of the Douglas Aircraft Company have been termed an industrial melting pot, since men and women of fifty-eight national origins work side by side in pushing Americas's plane output. S. O. Porter, Douglas director of personnel, recently declared that Negros are doing an outstanding job in all plants. Richard Springfield and William Ung are employed in the El Segundo plant of the Douglas Aircraft Company

On board a fishing vessel out from Gloucester, Massachusetts. Men shoveling red fish at night

Production. Minesweepers. W.S. Neal, age seventy, came out of retirement to work in the blacksmith shop of an Eastern shipyard. He is shown forging a part to be used in the construction of a Navy minesweeper. Mr. Neal has three granddaughters and a son in war industry. "Why should I sit by at the age of seventy when there's work to do?" he asks. Gibbs Cass Company

Albuquerque, New Mexico. Joseph Pina, boilermaker in the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad locomotive shops for thirty-four years

Albuquerque, New Mexico. Joseph Pina, boilermaker in the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad locomotive shops for thirty-four years

Production. Marine boilers. A turning operation on a large gun mount casting in a big Midwest plant backing the war production drive with all its facilities

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Rushing the SS George Washington Carver to completion. Negro skilled workers played an important part in the construction of the SS George Washington Carver, second Liberty Ship named for a Negro, in the Richmond Shipyard No. 1 of the Kaiser Company. The first Negro to receive the Anchorman Award was I.H. Perry, a mechanic driller who worked for one year and one week without an unofficial day off or a single tardiness in reporting for work. Perry, forty-one years old, attended the pipe fitters school in Richmond after coming to California from his native Saint Louis, Missouri

Rushing the SS George Washington Carver to completion. Negro skilled workers played an important part in the construction of the SS George Washington Carver, second Liberty Ship named for a Negro, in the Richmond Shipyard No. 1 of the Kaiser Company. One of the best chippers in the yard is Bonaparte Louis, Jr., shown above with a fellow worker as the Carver is being rushed to completion

Rushing the SS George Washington Carver to completion. Negro skilled workers played an important part in the construction of the SS George Washington Carver, second Liberty Ship named for a Negro, in the Richmond Shipyard No. 1 of the Kaiser Company. Two brothers, Earva and Turres Smith, and Al Carter, all shipfitters, are shown at work on the vessel. All three have been employed in the Kaiser yards for more than nine months

Rushing the SS George Washington Carver to completion. Negro skilled workers played an important part in the construction of the SS George Washington Carver, second Liberty Ship named for a Negro, in the Richmond Shipyard No. 1 of the Kaiser Company. Mack Hayes, journeyman welder, graduated from the Richmond welding school before beginning work for Kaiser eight months ago

Rushing the SS George Washington Carver to completion. Negro skilled workers played an important part in the construction of the SS George Washington Carver, second Liberty Ship named for a Negro, in the Richmond Shipyard No. 1 of the Kaiser Company. Two brothers, Earva and Turres Smith, and Al Carter, all shipfitters, are shown at work on the vessel. All three have been employed in the Kaiser yards for more than nine months

Rushing the SS George Washington Carver to completion. Negro skilled workers played an important part in the construction of the SS George Washington Carver, second Liberty Ship named for a Negro, in the Richmond Shipyard No. 1 of the Kaiser Company. One of the best chippers in the yard is Bonaparte Louis, Jr., shown above with a fellow worker as the Carver is being rushed to completion

Rushing the SS George Washington Carver to completion. Negro skilled workers played an important part in the construction of the SS George Washington Carver, second Liberty Ship named for a Negro, in the Richmond Shipyard No. 1 of the Kaiser Company. Approximately 1,000 Negro women are included among the more than 6,000 colored workers in the four Kaiser shipyards at Richmond. Miss Anna Bland, a burner, is shown at work on the SS George Washington Carver

Rushing the SS George Washington Carver to completion. Negro skilled workers played an important part in the construction of the SS George Washington Carver, second Liberty Ship named for a Negro, in the Richmond Shipyard No. 1 of the Kaiser Company. Looking over the plans of the shipyard are, left to right: Bill Watkins, shipfitter foreman, Bill Griggs and Perry Bost, journeyman

Rushing the SS George Washington Carver to completion. Negro skilled workers played an important part in the construction of the SS George Washington Carver, second Liberty Ship named for a Negro, in the Richmond Shipyard No. 1 of the Kaiser Company. Approximately 1,000 Negro women are included among the more than 6,000 colored workers in the four Kaiser shipyards at Richmond. Miss Anna Bland, a burner, is shown at work on the SS George Washington Carver

Rushing the SS George Washington Carver to completion. Negro skilled workers played an important part in the construction of the SS George Washington Carver, second Liberty Ship named for a Negro, in the Richmond Shipyard No. 1 of the Kaiser Company. The first Negro to receive the Anchorman Award was I.H. Perry, a mechanic driller who worked for one year and one week without an unofficial day off or a single tardiness in reporting for work. Perry, forty-one years old, attended the pipe fitters school in Richmond after coming to California from his native Saint Louis, Missouri

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label_outline Explore Fitters, Second Liberty Ship, Ss George Washington Carver

Carver Cotton Gin Company, East Bridgewater, Massachusetts

Richmond, California. Permanente Metals Corporation, shipbuilding division, yard number two. Pietro Cressano worked at the yard for seven months, and was in building construction work before that. He was born in America but both parents were born in Italy

Emmett W. Bassett and Priscilla Tietjen Bassett oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mosnier in Grahamsville, New York, 2011-07-21.

Rushing the SS George Washington Carver to completion. Negro skilled workers played an important part in the construction of the SS George Washington Carver, second Liberty Ship named for a Negro, in the Richmond Shipyard No. 1 of the Kaiser Company. Mack Hayes, journeyman welder, graduated from the Richmond welding school before beginning work for Kaiser eight months ago

Mary Church Terrell Papers: Speeches and Writings, 1866-1953; 1929, Mar. 31 , "Dr. George Washington Carver of Tuskegee"

Carver Museum, Old Montgomery Road, Tuskegee Institute Campus, Tuskegee, Macon County, AL

Emmett W. Bassett and Priscilla Tietjen Bassett oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mosnier in Grahamsville, New York, 2011-07-21.

James Madison to Carver Willis, January 20, 1827.

Black cane carver / Alex. Gardner, 921 Penna. Ave., Washington, D.C.

Carl Harden, doffer in Tupelo (Miss.) Cotton Mills. Said he was fourteen, but I doubt it. Couldn't write his own name. Been working in different mills about one year. Location: Tupelo, Mississippi

Presentation of Award of Merit to Pennsylvania students

Production. War housing trailers. The side of a war housing trailer nears completion on a table-top jig at Western Trailer Company's plant in Los Angeles. Exceptional strength is secured through built-up construction of Masonite over plywood with a casein bond. The side is secured to spacers with drive screws

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california contra costa county richmond safety film negatives washington carver ss george washington carver completion negro workers part construction liberty ship second liberty ship shipyard richmond shipyard kaiser company kaiser company first negro anchorman award anchorman award perry mechanic driller mechanic driller year one year one week tardiness forty one forty one years pipe fitters school pipe fitters school saint louis saint louis construction work george washington ocean liners images black history month black history month george washington carver images of george washington carver american science inventors race relations united states history african americans library of congress