Construction of the liberty ship "Booker T. Washington." T.W. Cole and Howard Glover, white and Negro welders at the California Shipbuilding Corporation, are shown watching a crane operator hoist steel plates into place on the "Booker T. Washington," first liberty ship to be named for a Negro
Summary
Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches).
Title and other information from caption card.
Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944.
More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsaowi
Film copy on SIS roll 31, frame 1483.
Tags
Date
01/01/1942
Location
california
Source
Library of Congress
Copyright info
Public Domain