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Newport News, Virginia. Negro shipyard worker's daughter

Newport News, Virginia. Negro shipyard worker's daughter

Public domain photograph of Great Depression, farm, farmer, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Newport News, Virginia. Negro shipyard worker does volunteer duty as an air raid warden

Newport News, Virginia. Negro shipyard worker does volunteer duty as a...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of worker, marketplace, vendor, 1930s, Great Depression, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Matthew Jones House, Newport News, Independent City, Virginia

Matthew Jones House, Newport News, Independent City, Virginia

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-113 Survey number: HABS VA-163

Newport News & Old Point Railway & Electric Company, Trolley Barn & Administration Building, 3400 Victoria Boulevard, Hampton, Hampton, Virginia

Newport News & Old Point Railway & Electric Company, Trolley Barn & Ad...

Significance: Two early 20th century buildings which were primary to the development of one of the earliest local trolley transportation systems in Virginia. Unprocessed Field note material exists for this str... More

Newport News & Old Point Railway & Electric Company, Trolley Barn & Administration Building, 3400 Victoria Boulevard, Hampton, Hampton, Virginia

Newport News & Old Point Railway & Electric Company, Trolley Barn & Ad...

Significance: Two early 20th century buildings which were primary to the development of one of the earliest local trolley transportation systems in Virginia. Unprocessed Field note material exists for this str... More

Newport News & Old Point Railway & Electric Company, Trolley Barn & Administration Building, 3400 Victoria Boulevard, Hampton, Hampton, Virginia

Newport News & Old Point Railway & Electric Company, Trolley Barn & Ad...

Significance: Two early 20th century buildings which were primary to the development of one of the earliest local trolley transportation systems in Virginia. Unprocessed Field note material exists for this str... More

USS Gage, James River Reserve Fleet, Newport News, Newport News, Virginia

USS Gage, James River Reserve Fleet, Newport News, Newport News, Virgi...

Public domain photograph of American ship, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

USS Gage, James River Reserve Fleet, Newport News, Newport News, Virginia

USS Gage, James River Reserve Fleet, Newport News, Newport News, Virgi...

Public domain scan of a technical diagram, plan, or drawing, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description.

USS Gage, James River Reserve Fleet, Newport News, Newport News, Virginia

USS Gage, James River Reserve Fleet, Newport News, Newport News, Virgi...

Public domain photograph - historical image of Virginia, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Empire State V, James River Reserve Fleet, Newport News, Newport News, Virginia

Empire State V, James River Reserve Fleet, Newport News, Newport News,...

Significance: Originally built for American President Lines for commercial purposes, the Military Sea Transportation Services instead converted the Empire State V to a troopship. One of three in its class, it ... More

Federal Vessels Driving Back the Iron-Plated Rebel Steamer Yorktown, which At  mpted to Run the Blockade, Near Newport News

Federal Vessels Driving Back the Iron-Plated Rebel Steamer Yorktown, w...

Published engraving based upon DRWG/US - Balling, no. 1 (A size). Attributed to Balling in New York Illustrated News caption. Title printed below image. Initials T.N. engraved lower right of image indicate that... More

Davis & Kimpton Brickyard, West bank of Warwick River, Mulberry Island, Newport News, Newport News, Virginia

Davis & Kimpton Brickyard, West bank of Warwick River, Mulberry Island...

Significance: The Davis and Kimpton Brickyard is a unique and well-preserved example of a brick manufacturing plant and associated technology which was revolutionizing regional industrial patterns at the turn o... More

Arthur M. Huddell, James River Reserve Fleet, Newport News, Newport News, Virginia

Arthur M. Huddell, James River Reserve Fleet, Newport News, Newport Ne...

Significance: The Arthur M. Huddell is significant as an example of the Liberty class, which have been described as the workhorses of World War II. The mass production of the Liberty class was possible because... More

Arthur M. Huddell, James River Reserve Fleet, Newport News, Newport News, Virginia

Arthur M. Huddell, James River Reserve Fleet, Newport News, Newport Ne...

Significance: The Arthur M. Huddell is significant as an example of the Liberty class, which have been described as the workhorses of World War II. The mass production of the Liberty class was possible because... More

Negro students working at shipbuilding at the Newport News Shipbuilding Co.

Negro students working at shipbuilding at the Newport News Shipbuildin...

Hampton Institute, Hampton, Va. Title and other information transcribed from caption card. Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection (Library of Congress). LOT subdivision subject: Hampton Normal and Agricultural In... More

Under his own vine - images Black History Month

Under his own vine - images Black History Month

African American man seated on porch and African American woman standing alongside wagon. Copyright by Samuel E. Rusk, Newport News, Va. No known restrictions on publication.

C. & O. terminal piers, Newport News, Virginia

C. & O. terminal piers, Newport News, Virginia

Corresponding glass transparency (with same series code) available on videodisc frame 1A-30307. "5 photo" on transparency. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 018371. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

Washington Ave. [Avenue], Newport News, Virginia

Washington Ave. [Avenue], Newport News, Virginia

Public domain image of a train station in Boston, Massachusetts, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

PENNSYLVirginiaNIA, U.S.S. LAUNCHING, NEWPORT NEWS, Virginia MISS E. KOLB AT RIGHT AND MAIDS: MISS K. KOLB; MISS K. MARTIN; MISS HARROLD. DIFFERENT ORDER THAN IN 4988

PENNSYLVirginiaNIA, U.S.S. LAUNCHING, NEWPORT NEWS, Virginia MISS E. K...

A group of women standing next to each other, Library of Congress Harris and Ewing collection Title from unverified caption data received with the Harris & Ewing Collection. Gift; Harris & Ewing, Inc. 1955. Ge... More

Mrs. L.M. Riley and Emilie - Public domain portrait print

Mrs. L.M. Riley and Emilie - Public domain portrait print

Photograph shows Mrs. L. M. Riley and her baby Emilie, who were passengers on the British ship, the Appam, which was seized by a German ship off the coast of Africa in January 1916 and was later brought to New... More

PENNSYLVirginiaNIA, U.S.S. LAUNCHING, NEWPORT NEWS, Virginia CHRISTENING STAND; GOVERNOR BRUMBAUGH OF PA. AND SPONSORS

PENNSYLVirginiaNIA, U.S.S. LAUNCHING, NEWPORT NEWS, Virginia CHRISTENI...

A group of people standing around a large american flag. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A black and white photo of a boat docked at a dock, Virginia. Farm Security Administration photograph

A black and white photo of a boat docked at a dock, Virginia. Farm Sec...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a boat in a harbor, water, fishing boat, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

A black and white photo of people on a bridge Farmers of Great Depression. Dust bowl refugees, Resettlement program.

A black and white photo of people on a bridge Farmers of Great Depress...

Title and other information from a possibly related negative. Image came to Library of Congress untitled. (There was no caption for this image in the FSA/OWI shelflist.) Negative has a hole punch made by FSA st... More

Community manager. Newport News Homesteads, Virginia

Community manager. Newport News Homesteads, Virginia

Picryl description: Public domain image of a political campaign, politician, office meeting, 1930s, mid-20th-century United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Fishing boats in the harbor, Newport News, Virginia

Fishing boats in the harbor, Newport News, Virginia

Picryl description: Public domain image of a boat in a harbor, water, fishing boat, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

A group of people standing around a car, Virginia. Farm Security Administration photograph

A group of people standing around a car, Virginia. Farm Security Admin...

Picryl description: Public domain historical photograph of 1930s America during the Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

A black and white photo of a group of men loading a truck, Virginia. Farm Security Administration photograph

A black and white photo of a group of men loading a truck, Virginia. F...

Public domain photograph - United States during the 1930s and 1940s, Farm Security Administration, New Deal, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A group of men standing next to each other, Virginia. Farm Security Administration photograph

A group of men standing next to each other, Virginia. Farm Security Ad...

Picryl description: Public domain image of industrial or agricultural worker, 1930s, 20th-century, free to use, no copyright restrictions. show less

A black and white photo of a city, Virginia. Farm Security Administration photograph

A black and white photo of a city, Virginia. Farm Security Administrat...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a locomotive, train tracks, rail transportation, railroad, railway, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Negro workers on Newport News Homesteads, Virginia

Negro workers on Newport News Homesteads, Virginia

Public domain photograph related to race relations, African Americans, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A black and white photo of a man and two children in front of a house, Virginia. Farm Security Administration photograph

A black and white photo of a man and two children in front of a house,...

Picryl description: Public domain historical photograph of 1930s America during the Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Newport News Homesteads, housing project for Negroes. Virginia

Newport News Homesteads, housing project for Negroes. Virginia

Public domain photograph of 1930s-1940s Virginia, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A black and white photo of a man carrying a box, possibly related to: Moving into Newport News Homesteads, Virginia

A black and white photo of a man carrying a box, possibly related to: ...

Title and other information from a possibly related negative. Image came to Library of Congress untitled. (There was no caption for this image in the FSA/OWI shelflist.) Appears to be related to negative LC-USF... More

A group of people standing in front of a brick building, Virginia. Farm Security Administration photograph

A group of people standing in front of a brick building, Virginia. Far...

Public domain photograph - United States during the 1930s and 1940s, Farm Security Administration, New Deal, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Newport News, Virginia. The forward deck on a C-3, photographed from the bridge. Winch in foreground; winch platform in center of picture. The mast has not yet been installed on the ship. (C-3 refers simply  to the type of ship design.)

Newport News, Virginia. The forward deck on a C-3, photographed from t...

Public domain photograph of industrial architecture, factory building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Cook at Salvation Army. Newport News, Virginia

Cook at Salvation Army. Newport News, Virginia

Picryl description: Public domain image of cooking, kitchen, food preparation, 1930s, mid-20th-century United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Men eating at Salvation Army. Newport News, Virginia

Men eating at Salvation Army. Newport News, Virginia

Picryl description: Public domain image of food, dinner, grocery store, eating, 1930s, mid-20th-century United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Newport News, Virginia. Welder electro-welding the seam of a hatch combing on a C-3

Newport News, Virginia. Welder electro-welding the seam of a hatch com...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a construction site, wooden frame, timber, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Newport News, Virginia. Workmen removing bolts from the ways after a ship has been launched. The grease on the ways can still be seen

Newport News, Virginia. Workmen removing bolts from the ways after a s...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an industrial building, factory, workshop, workers, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Salvation Army. Newport News, Virginia

Salvation Army. Newport News, Virginia

Public domain photograph of Virginia, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Shipbuilding (Newport News). These workers are red-leading a pipe, to prevent corrosion. Only the highest quality materials will serve for the new warcraft under construction for Uncle Sam's two-ocean fleet

Shipbuilding (Newport News). These workers are red-leading a pipe, to ...

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

Newport News, Virginia. A small section of the shipyard, showing an overhead travelling ("Gentry") crane in the foreground. There are two ways on which ships are being built visible in the picture. The ship at far background is the S.S. American

Newport News, Virginia. A small section of the shipyard, showing an ov...

Public domain image of an industrial building, factory, structure, works, 19th-20th century industrial revolution, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

Shipyard workers going home at 4:00 p.m. Newport News, Virginia

Shipyard workers going home at 4:00 p.m. Newport News, Virginia

Public domain photograph of a historic place in Virginia, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Newport News, Virginia - safety film negatives, Library of Congress

Newport News, Virginia - safety film negatives, Library of Congress

Picryl description: Public domain image of a canal, barge, historic place, water reflection, 19th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Linemen. Newport News, Virginia

Linemen. Newport News, Virginia

Public domain photograph of Virginia, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Newport News, Virginia. Negro shipyard worker

Newport News, Virginia. Negro shipyard worker

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.

Newport News, Virginia. Negro shipyard worker at his rural home

Newport News, Virginia. Negro shipyard worker at his rural home

Public domain photograph of 1930s-1940s Virginia, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Newport News, Virginia. Negro shipyard worker finds recreation in hunting

Newport News, Virginia. Negro shipyard worker finds recreation in hunt...

Public domain photograph related to race relations, African Americans, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Newport News, Virginia. Negro shipyard worker leaving his rural home for the shipyards with his lunch box

Newport News, Virginia. Negro shipyard worker leaving his rural home f...

Public domain photograph of 1930s-1940s Virginia, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A group of women sitting around a table. Office of War Information Photograph

A group of women sitting around a table. Office of War Information Pho...

Title and other information from print in lot. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

Newport News & Old Point Railway & Electric Company, Trolley Barn & Administration Building, 3400 Victoria Boulevard, Hampton, Hampton, Virginia

Newport News & Old Point Railway & Electric Company, Trolley Barn & Ad...

Significance: Two early 20th century buildings which were primary to the development of one of the earliest local trolley transportation systems in Virginia. Unprocessed Field note material exists for this str... More

Newport News & Old Point Railway & Electric Company, Trolley Barn & Administration Building, 3400 Victoria Boulevard, Hampton, Hampton, Virginia

Newport News & Old Point Railway & Electric Company, Trolley Barn & Ad...

Significance: Two early 20th century buildings which were primary to the development of one of the earliest local trolley transportation systems in Virginia. Unprocessed Field note material exists for this str... More

Newport News & Old Point Railway & Electric Company, Trolley Barn & Administration Building, 3400 Victoria Boulevard, Hampton, Hampton, Virginia

Newport News & Old Point Railway & Electric Company, Trolley Barn & Ad...

Significance: Two early 20th century buildings which were primary to the development of one of the earliest local trolley transportation systems in Virginia. Unprocessed Field note material exists for this str... More

USS Gage, James River Reserve Fleet, Newport News, Newport News, Virginia

USS Gage, James River Reserve Fleet, Newport News, Newport News, Virgi...

Public domain photograph - historical image of Virginia, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Hampton Roads from the Warwick Hotel, Newport News, Virginia

Hampton Roads from the Warwick Hotel, Newport News, Virginia

Public domain photograph - panorama, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Federal Vessels Driving Back the Iron-Plated Rebel Steamer Yorktown, which At  mpted to Run the Blockade, Near Newport News

Federal Vessels Driving Back the Iron-Plated Rebel Steamer Yorktown, w...

Published engraving based upon DRWG/US - Balling, no. 1 (A size). Attributed to Balling in New York Illustrated News caption. Title printed below image. Initials T.N. engraved lower right of image indicate that... More

Davis & Kimpton Brickyard, West bank of Warwick River, Mulberry Island, Newport News, Newport News, Virginia

Davis & Kimpton Brickyard, West bank of Warwick River, Mulberry Island...

Significance: The Davis and Kimpton Brickyard is a unique and well-preserved example of a brick manufacturing plant and associated technology which was revolutionizing regional industrial patterns at the turn o... More

Davis & Kimpton Brickyard, West bank of Warwick River, Mulberry Island, Newport News, Newport News, Virginia

Davis & Kimpton Brickyard, West bank of Warwick River, Mulberry Island...

Significance: The Davis and Kimpton Brickyard is a unique and well-preserved example of a brick manufacturing plant and associated technology which was revolutionizing regional industrial patterns at the turn o... More

Davis & Kimpton Brickyard, West bank of Warwick River, Mulberry Island, Newport News, Newport News, Virginia

Davis & Kimpton Brickyard, West bank of Warwick River, Mulberry Island...

Significance: The Davis and Kimpton Brickyard is a unique and well-preserved example of a brick manufacturing plant and associated technology which was revolutionizing regional industrial patterns at the turn o... More

Review. Newport News - Public domain  drawing

Review. Newport News - Public domain drawing

Signed lower left on verso: A.R. Waud. Title inscribed above image. Inscribed below image: Siege gun [see sketch of cannon on verso]. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.593) Forms part of: Morgan collect... More

Arthur M. Huddell, James River Reserve Fleet, Newport News, Newport News, Virginia

Arthur M. Huddell, James River Reserve Fleet, Newport News, Newport Ne...

Significance: The Arthur M. Huddell is significant as an example of the Liberty class, which have been described as the workhorses of World War II. The mass production of the Liberty class was possible because... More

[Custom house and post office, Newport News, Virginia]

[Custom house and post office, Newport News, Virginia]

Public domain photograph of a post office building, postal service, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Hotel Warwick, Newport, Virginia]

[Hotel Warwick, Newport, Virginia]

Picryl description: Public domain image of a power station, dam, electric generator, industrial building, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Dry dock no. 2. - Public domain image of a steam boat

Dry dock no. 2. - Public domain image of a steam boat

Steamboats LOUISE and 2 coastal steamers in dry dock, Newport News, Va. Photo copyrighted by Samuel E. Rusk, Newport News, Va. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings:... More

Loading a whaleback steamer with coal, Newport News, Virginia, U.S.A

Loading a whaleback steamer with coal, Newport News, Virginia, U.S.A

H100741 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 882. Copyright 1907 by H.C. White Co.

Launching the Mississippi, Newport News, Virginia Jan. 25, 1917

Launching the Mississippi, Newport News, Virginia Jan. 25, 1917

A group of people standing next to each other. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Virginia: A black and white photo of a construction site, Great Depression

Virginia: A black and white photo of a construction site, Great Depres...

Picryl description: Public domain historical photograph of 1930s America during the Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

A black and white photo of a person in a tunnel, possibly related to: Negro workers on Newport News Homesteads, Virginia

A black and white photo of a person in a tunnel, possibly related to: ...

Title and other information from a possibly related negative. Image came to Library of Congress untitled. (There was no caption for this image in the FSA/OWI shelflist.) Appears to be related to negative LC-USF... More

Blacksmith shop, the only one in the city in the Negro section. Newport News, Virginia

Blacksmith shop, the only one in the city in the Negro section. Newpor...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an industrial building, factory, workshop, workers, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Front view of type A and B houses. Newport News Homesteads, Virginia

Front view of type A and B houses. Newport News Homesteads, Virginia

Public domain photograph of a historic place in Virginia, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

The Winners! Washington, D.C., Sept. 15. Capt. Roger Williams, (left) Vice President of the Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Co., whose bid of $17,500,000 for the construction of the proposed new vessel to replace the Leviathan in the North Atlantic, was found to be t lowest when the bids were opened by the U.S. Maritime Commission today. John M. Franklin (right), President of the U.S. Lines which will operate the new liner. When completed the new vessel will be a twin screw, combination mail, passenger and cargo carrier, and will give the American Merchant Fleet the safest vessel afloat. 9/15/37

The Winners! Washington, D.C., Sept. 15. Capt. Roger Williams, (left) ...

A couple of men standing next to each other. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Home of Negro family who will move to Newport News Homesteads, Virginia

Home of Negro family who will move to Newport News Homesteads, Virgini...

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 availabl... More

Home of family moving to Newport News Homesteads, Virginia

Home of family moving to Newport News Homesteads, Virginia

Picryl description: Public domain image of a residential building, house, 19th-20th century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Curb service, Newport News, Virginia

Curb service, Newport News, Virginia

Public domain photograph - historical image of Virginia, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Negro woman carrying groceries, Newport News, Virginia

Negro woman carrying groceries, Newport News, Virginia

Public domain photograph related to race relations, African Americans, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Virginia: A black and white photo of a brick house, Great Depression

Virginia: A black and white photo of a brick house, Great Depression

Picryl description: Public domain vintage artistic photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Housing. Newport News, Virginia

Housing. Newport News, Virginia

Public domain photograph of 1930s-1940s Virginia, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Shipbuilding (Newport News). This is a structural section, where preliminary work is done before the sections for new naval vessels are brought by overhead carriers to the ways, where they will become a part of the assembled ship

Shipbuilding (Newport News). This is a structural section, where preli...

Public domain image of an industrial building, factory, structure, works, 19th-20th century industrial revolution, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

Defense housing. Langley Field, Newport News, Virginia. This project built by the Federal Works Agency and the Public Buildings Administration, at a cost of $1,282,000 contains 350 units to house married enlisted personnel employed at the Army Air base. Construction is about ninety percent completed and rentals run about twenty percent of tenant's income

Defense housing. Langley Field, Newport News, Virginia. This project b...

Public domain photograph of 1930s-1940s Virginia, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Shipbuilding (Newport News). Here is driving power for the Navy, a group propeller shafts waiting for installation in new destroyers for our two-ocean Navy

Shipbuilding (Newport News). Here is driving power for the Navy, a gro...

Public domain photograph of factory building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Shipbuilding (Newport News). These are mold loft workers laying out patterns for various parts of naval vessels under construction. These patterns are subsequently transferred to steel

Shipbuilding (Newport News). These are mold loft workers laying out pa...

Public domain photograph of industrial architecture, factory building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Newport News, Virginia. The four-blade cast propeller, propeller hub and rudder of a C-3

Newport News, Virginia. The four-blade cast propeller, propeller hub a...

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

Man sleeping at Salvation Army. Newport News, Virginia

Man sleeping at Salvation Army. Newport News, Virginia

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 availabl... More

Salvation Army. Newport News, Virginia

Salvation Army. Newport News, Virginia

Picryl description: Public domain image of food, dinner, grocery store, eating, 1930s, mid-20th-century United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Parked cars belonging to shipyard employees. Newport News, Virginia

Parked cars belonging to shipyard employees. Newport News, Virginia

Public domain photograph of 1930s-1940s Virginia, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Shipbuilding (Newport News). This worker is touching up one of the huge condensers for a U.S. Navy destroyer under construction

Shipbuilding (Newport News). This worker is touching up one of the hug...

Public domain photograph of Virginia, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Defense housing project being developed by the housing authority of the city of Newport News, Virginia for the shelter of defense workers and families of enlisted personnel

Defense housing project being developed by the housing authority of th...

Public domain photograph of building construction site, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Shipbuilding (Newport News). These workers are attaching parts for a new cruiser under construction to the overhead crane which will deliver the metal to the building ways

Shipbuilding (Newport News). These workers are attaching parts for a n...

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.

Newport News, Virginia. Cutter working on frame shapes with an oxyacetylene torch. These frame shapes are used for the ribs of a ship

Newport News, Virginia. Cutter working on frame shapes with an oxyacet...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Caption card lists some of the printing history of image. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Informa... More

Newport News, Virginia. Spray painting the outside of the hull of a C-3. The section the worker is painting here is known technically as a deck thwart

Newport News, Virginia. Spray painting the outside of the hull of a C-...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an industrial building, factory, workshop, workers, 20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Shipbuilding (Newport News). Thousands of tons of lumber and steel are used in the construction of these ways, where American mechanical genius is employed in the production of ships for our new two-ocean navy

Shipbuilding (Newport News). Thousands of tons of lumber and steel are...

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

Newport News, Virginia. Negro shipyard workers leaving their work

Newport News, Virginia. Negro shipyard workers leaving their work

Public domain photograph of 1930s-1940s Virginia, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Newport News, Virginia. Negro shipyard worker

Newport News, Virginia. Negro shipyard worker

Title and other information from print in lot. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

Newport News & Old Point Railway & Electric Company, Trolley Barn & Administration Building, 3400 Victoria Boulevard, Hampton, Hampton, Virginia

Newport News & Old Point Railway & Electric Company, Trolley Barn & Ad...

Significance: Two early 20th century buildings which were primary to the development of one of the earliest local trolley transportation systems in Virginia. Unprocessed Field note material exists for this str... More

Newport News & Old Point Railway & Electric Company, Trolley Barn & Administration Building, 3400 Victoria Boulevard, Hampton, Hampton, Virginia

Newport News & Old Point Railway & Electric Company, Trolley Barn & Ad...

Significance: Two early 20th century buildings which were primary to the development of one of the earliest local trolley transportation systems in Virginia. Unprocessed Field note material exists for this str... More

USS Vulcan, James River Reserve Fleet, Newport News, Newport News, Virginia

USS Vulcan, James River Reserve Fleet, Newport News, Newport News, Vir...

Significance: The Vulcan is significant as the lead ship in the Vulcan class of repair ships, providing assistance to U.S. naval ships from ports close to the occupational areas of the Atlantic Fleet. The Vulc... More

Empire State V, James River Reserve Fleet, Newport News, Newport News, Virginia

Empire State V, James River Reserve Fleet, Newport News, Newport News,...

Significance: Originally built for American President Lines for commercial purposes, the Military Sea Transportation Services instead converted the Empire State V to a troopship. One of three in its class, it ... More

Davis & Kimpton Brickyard, West bank of Warwick River, Mulberry Island, Newport News, Newport News, Virginia

Davis & Kimpton Brickyard, West bank of Warwick River, Mulberry Island...

Significance: The Davis and Kimpton Brickyard is a unique and well-preserved example of a brick manufacturing plant and associated technology which was revolutionizing regional industrial patterns at the turn o... More

Arthur M. Huddell, James River Reserve Fleet, Newport News, Newport News, Virginia

Arthur M. Huddell, James River Reserve Fleet, Newport News, Newport Ne...

Significance: The Arthur M. Huddell is significant as an example of the Liberty class, which have been described as the workhorses of World War II. The mass production of the Liberty class was possible because... More

Encampment of U.St. troops at Newport News, Virginia, 1861 & 1862 /

Encampment of U.St. troops at Newport News, Virginia, 1861 & 1862 /

Bird's eye view. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Acquisitions control no. 2001-31 CW3

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