Building the SS Frederick Douglass. More than 6,000 Negro shipyard workers are employed at the Bethlehem-Fairfield shipyards, where the Liberty ship is being rushed to completion. The noted orator and abolitionist leader worked as a ship caulker in the vicinity of this yard before he escaped from slavery. Men setting bulkhead in place, running from tank deck to flat deck in aft of ship
Summary
Picryl description: Public domain image of workers, labor, 1940s, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
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Date
01/01/1943
Contributors
Smith, Roger, photographer
Location
Baltimore (Md.), 39.29028, -76.61222
Source
Library of Congress
Copyright info
No known restrictions. For information, see U.S. Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Black & White Photographs http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/071_fsab.html