Rosie the Riveter National Historical Park, Auxiliary Plate Shop, 912 Harbour Way, Richmond, Contra Costa County, CA
Summary
Significance: Plate shops were the first real point of production in the shipyards as workers there began to fashion raw plates and shapes into usable pieces. Richmond Yards 1, 2, and 3 each had one plate shop, and yards 1 and 2 shared an additional one. Bare and cavernous, the plate shops varied in size, but none were much more than tall, open-ended boxes whose interiors were arranged into long aisles or "bays," each of which shared with its adjoining neighbors a bank of machinery between them...
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N976
Survey number: HAER CA-326-I
Tags
Date
1969 - 1980
Contributors
Historic American Engineering Record, creator
Christianson, Justine, transmitter
Brooks , William Pete, delineator
Lowe, Jet, photographer
Location
Richmond, 37.94254, -122.35994
Source
Library of Congress
Copyright info
No known restrictions on images made by the U.S. Government; images copied from other sources may be restricted. http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/114_habs.html