Shipbuilding. "Liberty" ships. This giant plate roller, of German design, is used to roll cold steel shell plates for members of Uncle Sam's new "Liberty Fleet" under construction at a large Eastern shipyard. This prefabrication work is being done at a nearby plant which formerly turned out freight cars. All parts are prefabricated in this huge Eastern plant which formerly turned out freight cars. The completed sections are then carried six miles to the ways on flatcars. Bethlehem-Fairfield Shipyards Inc., Baltimore, Maryland
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Picryl description: Public domain image of a factory, plant, manufacture, assembly line, industrial facility, early 20th-century industrial architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
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Date
01/01/1941
Contributors
Palmer, Alfred T., photographer
United States. Office of War Information.
Location
Baltimore (Md.), 39.29028, -76.61222
Source
Library of Congress
Copyright info
Public Domain