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Shipbuilding (Norfolk Navy Yard). Power for defense is the specialty of this worker in the plate shaping shop. The sledgehammer is still an important tool in the building of ships for Uncle Sam's giant new fleet

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Shipbuilding (Norfolk Navy Yard). Power for defense is the specialty of this worker in the plate shaping shop. The sledgehammer is still an important tool in the building of ships for Uncle Sam's giant new fleet

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Picryl description: Public domain image of a worker, labor, factory, plant, manufacture, industrial facility, 1930s, mid-20th-century industrial photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

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Date

01/01/1941

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Contributors

Palmer, Alfred T., photographer

United States. Office of War Information.

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Location

Meadowbrook, 36.91348, -76.30355

Google Map of 36.9134808, -76.3035527

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Library of Congress

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