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Brooklyn, New York. Dollies, carrying newly-machined engine parts, being moved in and out of the shipping room of a factory engaged in subcontracting work for aviation, shipbuilding and radio manufacturing concerns. This factory previously made oil burner equipment

Brooklyn, New York. Dollies, carrying newly-machined engine parts, bei...

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Shipbuilding. "Liberty" ships. Welding is more important than ever before in shipbuilding, saving time, weight and steel. This work is done at a nearby plant which formerly turned out freight cars. This worker is welding top plates to angle frames for a merchant ship under construction at a large Eastern yard. 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

Shipbuilding. "Liberty" ships. Welding is more important than ever bef...

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Shipbuilding. "Liberty" ships. A view from the water of the shipways at a large Eastern yard. At the left is seen the old-style superstructure, with tracks for two-way overhead cranes, while at the right, running on ground tracks, are the more modern cranes, designed for hoisting from any angle. Bethlehem-Fairfield Shipyards Inc., Baltimore, Maryland

Shipbuilding. "Liberty" ships. A view from the water of the shipways a...

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Shipbuilding. "Liberty" ships. Wooden templates are used as patterns for the laying out of a number of steel plates. This worker is carrying the templates for a gun foundation from the mold loft to the plate working section. 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 flat cars. Bethlehem-Fairfield Shipyards Inc., Baltimore, Maryland

Shipbuilding. "Liberty" ships. Wooden templates are used as patterns f...

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Shipbuilding (Norfolk Navy Yard). Hundreds of skilled workers are engaged in the welding shop. Welded jointures have many advantages over riveted fittings, and welders are sought in increasing quantities for work on Uncle Sam's growing battle fleet

Shipbuilding (Norfolk Navy Yard). Hundreds of skilled workers are enga...

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Shipbuilding. "Liberty" ships. This worker is watching for signals from a colleague as he rolls cold steel plate to a desired shape on this plate roller, designed in Germany. All parts are prefabricated in this Eastern plant which formerly turned out freight cars. The completed sections are carried to the ways on flat cars. Bethlehem-Fairfield Shipyards Inc., Baltimore, Maryland

Shipbuilding. "Liberty" ships. This worker is watching for signals fro...

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Shipbuilding. "Liberty" ships. Steel plates of wasteless dimensions stacked ready for laying out, one of the first operations on the production line of multiply cargo ship construction. 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 flat cars. Bethlehem-Fairfield Shipyards Inc., Baltimore, Maryland

Shipbuilding. "Liberty" ships. Steel plates of wasteless dimensions st...

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Decatur, Alabama. Ingalls Shipbuilding Company. Crane operator in the yard

Decatur, Alabama. Ingalls Shipbuilding Company. Crane operator in the ...

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Decatur, Alabama. Ingalls Shipbuilding Company. Barges under construction

Decatur, Alabama. Ingalls Shipbuilding Company. Barges under construct...

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California Shipbuilding Corporation, Wilmington, California. Change of shift

California Shipbuilding Corporation, Wilmington, California. Change of...

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Ingalls Shipbuilding Company, Decatur, Alabama. Removing the timbers which support an Army barge, just before launching her

Ingalls Shipbuilding Company, Decatur, Alabama. Removing the timbers w...

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Decatur, Alabama. Ingalls Shipbuilding Company. Coming off a ship at the end of the shift

Decatur, Alabama. Ingalls Shipbuilding Company. Coming off a ship at t...

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Production. Launching of the SS Booker T. Washington. Two Negro welders, representative of the workers of many racial groups which helped construct the first Liberty Ship named for a Negro, prepare to cut the steel plates which released the SS Booker T. Washington down the ways at its launching on September 29, 1942, at the California Shipbuilding Corporation's Wilmington yards

Production. Launching of the SS Booker T. Washington. Two Negro welder...

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Decatur, Alabama. Ingalls Shipbuilding Company. Barges under construction

Decatur, Alabama. Ingalls Shipbuilding Company. Barges under construct...

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New York, New York. Marine and shipbuilding workers' convention. Flynn, a leader of the New Jersey local, addressing the union convention at the Hotel New Yorker

New York, New York. Marine and shipbuilding workers' convention. Flynn...

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Decatur, Alabama. Ingalls Shipbuilding Company. Crane operator in the yard

Decatur, Alabama. Ingalls Shipbuilding Company. Crane operator in the ...

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Ingalls Shipbuilding Company, Decatur, Alabama. Stern of an Army barge

Ingalls Shipbuilding Company, Decatur, Alabama. Stern of an Army barge

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Decatur, Alabama. Ingalls Shipbuilding Company. A shipfitter's helper

Decatur, Alabama. Ingalls Shipbuilding Company. A shipfitter's helper

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Manpower. Negro shipyard workers. Skills which contributed to America's success in World War I are vital to our efforts in World War II. This Negro riveter is a veteran employee in a large Eastern shipyard. Another Negro broke the world record for riveting in World War I. Federal Shipbuilding and Drydock Corporation. Kearny, New Jersey

Manpower. Negro shipyard workers. Skills which contributed to America'...

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Baseball players in war production. "Safe," signals George Stovall, retired manager of the Cleveland Indians as Vince DiMaggio slides home during a lunch-hour softball game in the California Shipbuilding Corporation shipyards. DiMaggio, Pittsburgh Pirates outfielder, has been a warehouseman at the California shipyards since last fall; Stovall has worked as checker in the yards for more than a year

Baseball players in war production. "Safe," signals George Stovall, re...

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Richmond, California. Permanente Metals Corporation, shipbuilding division, yard number two. Italian-American worker

Richmond, California. Permanente Metals Corporation, shipbuilding divi...

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Richmond, California. Permanente Metals Corporation, shipbuilding division, yard number two. V. De Martini has worked in the yard for ten months. He was born in Italy, and has been in the United States thirty-four years

Richmond, California. Permanente Metals Corporation, shipbuilding divi...

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Auxiliary Fishing Schooner "Evelina M. Goulart", Essex Shipbuilding Museum, 66 Main Street, Essex, Essex County, MA

Auxiliary Fishing Schooner "Evelina M. Goulart", Essex Shipbuilding Mu...

Significance: The EVELINA M. GOULART is an example of what is sometimes called a "transitional schooner." These vessels bridged a gap during a period of transition in the history of shipbuilding in America fro... More

Auxiliary Fishing Schooner "Evelina M. Goulart", Essex Shipbuilding Museum, 66 Main Street, Essex, Essex County, MA

Auxiliary Fishing Schooner "Evelina M. Goulart", Essex Shipbuilding Mu...

Significance: The EVELINA M. GOULART is an example of what is sometimes called a "transitional schooner." These vessels bridged a gap during a period of transition in the history of shipbuilding in America fro... More

Virginia Shipbuilding Corps., Nov. 1917

Virginia Shipbuilding Corps., Nov. 1917

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Shipbuilding. "Liberty" ships. Here are two members of the Liberty Fleet lying at anchor in the basin of a large Eastern shipyard, awaiting final fitting and rigging. Bethlehem-Fairfield Shipyards Inc., Baltimore, Maryland

Shipbuilding. "Liberty" ships. Here are two members of the Liberty Fle...

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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...

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Shipbuilding (Newport News). Behind all the scaffolding a new cruiser is beginning to take shape, one of four under construction on the Newport News ways

Shipbuilding (Newport News). Behind all the scaffolding a new cruiser ...

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Shipbuilding (Norfolk Navy Yard). These are some of the 26,000 men whose hands are fashioning powerful new additions to Uncle Sam's rapidly expanding naval forces. A few miles away at the yards of the Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Company, other thousands are also coming off their shifts. This scene is typical of dozens of shipyards throughout the nation. Shipyard workers have a lot to smile about, for invariably they have done their work so well and efficiently that production is ahead of schedule

Shipbuilding (Norfolk Navy Yard). These are some of the 26,000 men who...

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Vallejo, California. Workman at Mare Island shipbuilding yards in his room at FSA (Farm Security Administration) dormitories

Vallejo, California. Workman at Mare Island shipbuilding yards in his ...

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Shipbuilding. "Liberty" ships. Between the ways of this large Eastern shipyard run tracks for flat cars carrying materials or sections to be hoisted onto the decks of ships under construction

Shipbuilding. "Liberty" ships. Between the ways of this large Eastern ...

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

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War Production Drive Committee. First meeting of the War Production Drive Policy Committee on October 19, 1942, in Washington, D.C. Left to right: John Green, president, Industrial Union of Marine and Shipbuilding Workers of America, CIO (Congress of Industrial Organizations); Otto A. Seyferth, President, West Michigan Steel Foundry Company, Muskegon, Michigan (nominated by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce); W.G. Marshall, chairman of Policy Committee and director of War Production Drive Headquarters, vice-president in charge of Industrial Relations, Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company, East Pittsburg, Pennsylvania; Joseph Mcdonagh, secretary, Metal Trades Department, AFL (American Federation of Labor), representing Frank Fenton, director of Organizations, AFL; and Harry C. Beaver, president, Worthington Pump and Machinery Corporation, New York City (nominated by National Association of Manufacturers)

War Production Drive Committee. First meeting of the War Production Dr...

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Production. Launching of the SS Booker T. Washington. Shipyard workers of many racial groups which helped construct the SS Booker T. Washington, first Liberty Ship named for a Negro, wave from the deck of the vessel a short time before it was launched at the California Shipbuilding Corporation's yard on September 29, 1942

Production. Launching of the SS Booker T. Washington. Shipyard workers...

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Decatur, Alabama. Ingalls Shipbuilding Company. Morris Black, timekeeper, going off to the army, pinning up his badge on the bulletin board reserved for men from the yard who have joined the armed forces. Two of his friends look on

Decatur, Alabama. Ingalls Shipbuilding Company. Morris Black, timekeep...

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Ingalls Shipbuilding Company, Decatur, Alabama. Workmen at the launching of an Army barge

Ingalls Shipbuilding Company, Decatur, Alabama. Workmen at the launchi...

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Decatur, Alabama. Ingalls Shipbuilding Company. Night shift at work on the barges

Decatur, Alabama. Ingalls Shipbuilding Company. Night shift at work on...

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Denver, Colorado. This workman has gone "all out" to speed up the Navy's unique shipbuilding program here in this mile-high city--the world's largest city not on a navigable waterway. Even though he has never seen an ocean or a ship larger than the pleasure launch on Denver's city park lake, the steel worker behind this acetylene torch is no less a shipbuilder! He is one of the workers in the eight Denver fabricating firms turning out hull parts in a 56 million dollar which means more escort vessels for Uncle Sam's Navy--vessels made in Denver and assembled at Mare Island Navy Yard 1,300 miles away

Denver, Colorado. This workman has gone "all out" to speed up the Navy...

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Decatur, Alabama. Ingalls Shipbuilding Company. A "tacker" working on a barge

Decatur, Alabama. Ingalls Shipbuilding Company. A "tacker" working on ...

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Decatur, Alabama. Ingalls Shipbuilding Company. Welders working on the stern of a barge

Decatur, Alabama. Ingalls Shipbuilding Company. Welders working on the...

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Manpower. Negro shipyard workers. The hammer is still an important tool in ship production. These workers are bending metal fittings on a furnace slab floor, an operation in ship construction at a large Eastern yard. Federal Shipbuilding and Drydock Corporation. Kearny, New Jersey

Manpower. Negro shipyard workers. The hammer is still an important too...

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California Shipbuilding Corporation, Wilmington, California. Welder working on a double bottom section

California Shipbuilding Corporation, Wilmington, California. Welder wo...

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Decatur, Alabama. Ingalls Shipbuilding Company. Lowering into place a section of the barge's doublebottom. This signal means "hold it"

Decatur, Alabama. Ingalls Shipbuilding Company. Lowering into place a ...

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Steam Tug EPPLETON HALL, Hyde Street Pier, San Francisco, San Francisco County, CA

Steam Tug EPPLETON HALL, Hyde Street Pier, San Francisco, San Francisc...

Significance: The steam side paddlewheel tugboat EPPLETON HALL was the last of the famed British paddleboats to be built. Its engine is the once-common, but now rare, twin sidelever "grasshopper" engine. It ... More

Steam Tug EPPLETON HALL, Hyde Street Pier, San Francisco, San Francisco County, CA

Steam Tug EPPLETON HALL, Hyde Street Pier, San Francisco, San Francisc...

Significance: The steam side paddlewheel tugboat EPPLETON HALL was the last of the famed British paddleboats to be built. Its engine is the once-common, but now rare, twin sidelever "grasshopper" engine. It ... More

Steam Tug EPPLETON HALL, Hyde Street Pier, San Francisco, San Francisco County, CA

Steam Tug EPPLETON HALL, Hyde Street Pier, San Francisco, San Francisc...

Significance: The steam side paddlewheel tugboat EPPLETON HALL was the last of the famed British paddleboats to be built. Its engine is the once-common, but now rare, twin sidelever "grasshopper" engine. It ... More

Auxiliary Fishing Schooner "Evelina M. Goulart", Essex Shipbuilding Museum, 66 Main Street, Essex, Essex County, MA

Auxiliary Fishing Schooner "Evelina M. Goulart", Essex Shipbuilding Mu...

Significance: The EVELINA M. GOULART is an example of what is sometimes called a "transitional schooner." These vessels bridged a gap during a period of transition in the history of shipbuilding in America fro... More

Auxiliary Fishing Schooner "Evelina M. Goulart", Essex Shipbuilding Museum, 66 Main Street, Essex, Essex County, MA

Auxiliary Fishing Schooner "Evelina M. Goulart", Essex Shipbuilding Mu...

Significance: The EVELINA M. GOULART is an example of what is sometimes called a "transitional schooner." These vessels bridged a gap during a period of transition in the history of shipbuilding in America fro... More

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) ...

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In spotlight at U.S. Maritime commission hearing. Washington, D.C. Aug. 23. The U.S. Maritime Commission opened a general hearing on maritime labor conditions in an attempt to determine methods of avoiding costly industrial disputes which have hampered the American Merchant Marine and discouraged investment of Capital in shipbuilding. Among the first to be heard were, left to right, John W. Meal, of Marine Cooks and Stewards Association of the Pacific Coast; Mervyn Rathbone, President of the American Radio Telegraphists Association; and Francis J. Goodall, National Maritime Union of Cooks and Stewards. Rathbone told the commission that minimum wages fixed by the government become the maximum rates paid by ship operators. Many telegraphists have thrown out of work [...] the adoption of the automatic alarm system appro[...] [...] F.C.C., Rathbone also told the commission. 8/23/37

In spotlight at U.S. Maritime commission hearing. Washington, D.C. Aug...

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Morris L. Cooke, Technical Consultant to Mr. Sidney Hillman and Chairman of the Shipbuilding Stabilization Committee

Morris L. Cooke, Technical Consultant to Mr. Sidney Hillman and Chairm...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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Shipbuilding. "Liberty" ships. The maritime inspector at a large Eastern shipyard is checking over, with the foreman, the stem assembly for a new member of the "Liberty Fleet." 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 flat cars. Bethlehem-Fairfield Shipyards Inc., Baltimore, Maryland

Shipbuilding. "Liberty" ships. The maritime inspector at a large Easte...

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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...

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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...

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Ship launching in Portland, Maine. New ships rise from the ways as construction is speeded at a New England shipbuilding company. This yard launched eight vessels on August 16, 1942--the greatest tonnage to take the water in one day in the history of Maine shipbuilding

Ship launching in Portland, Maine. New ships rise from the ways as con...

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Manpower. Shipyard workers. Reaming holes in a deck plate for a new cargo boat under construction at the Wilmington, California, yard of the California Shipbuilding Corporation. The Booker T. Washington, recently launched at this yard, is one of the many freighters the company has built since Pearl Harbor

Manpower. Shipyard workers. Reaming holes in a deck plate for a new ca...

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Decatur, Alabama. Ingalls Shipbuilding Company. Welders at work on a barge

Decatur, Alabama. Ingalls Shipbuilding Company. Welders at work on a b...

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New York, New York. Marine and shipbuilding workers' convention. Flynn, a leader of the New Jersey local, addressing the union convention at the Hotel New Yorker

New York, New York. Marine and shipbuilding workers' convention. Flynn...

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Decatur, Alabama. Ingalls Shipbuilding Company. Waiting in line for paychecks

Decatur, Alabama. Ingalls Shipbuilding Company. Waiting in line for pa...

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Production. Launching of the SS Booker T. Washington. The SS Booker T. Washington, first Liberty Ship named for a Negro is shown at the fitting-out pier a short time after it was launched at the California Shipbuilding Corporation's yards. Marian Anderson, celebrated contralto, christened the ship which was named for the noted Negro educator

Production. Launching of the SS Booker T. Washington. The SS Booker T....

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Decatur, Alabama. Ingalls Shipbuilding Company. A welder at work on the deck of one of the barges

Decatur, Alabama. Ingalls Shipbuilding Company. A welder at work on th...

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Decatur, Alabama. Ingalls Shipbuilding Company. Barge under construction in the yard

Decatur, Alabama. Ingalls Shipbuilding Company. Barge under constructi...

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Decatur, Alabama. Ingalls Shipbuilding Company. On the Tennessee River. From the yard the barges go down the river to Paducah, Kentucky, then down the Mississippi to New Orleans

Decatur, Alabama. Ingalls Shipbuilding Company. On the Tennessee River...

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Decatur, Alabama. Ingalls Shipbuilding Company. Barge under construction in the yard

Decatur, Alabama. Ingalls Shipbuilding Company. Barge under constructi...

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Decatur, Alabama. Ingalls Shipbuilding Company. A chipper at work in the wheelhouse of a barge

Decatur, Alabama. Ingalls Shipbuilding Company. A chipper at work in t...

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California Shipbuilding Corporation, Wilmington, California. Liberty vessel Abraham Clark going down the ways

California Shipbuilding Corporation, Wilmington, California. Liberty v...

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Decatur, Alabama. Ingalls Shipbuilding Company. Lowering into place one of the sides of the stern of a barge under construction

Decatur, Alabama. Ingalls Shipbuilding Company. Lowering into place on...

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Production. Launching of the SS Booker T. Washington. First Liberty Ship named for a Negro, the SS Booker T. Washington is shown at the California Shipbuilding Corporation's yards a short time before it was christened by Marian Anderson, the celebrated contralto. The cargo vessel was placed in command of Captain Hugh Mulzac, a Negro skipper

Production. Launching of the SS Booker T. Washington. First Liberty Sh...

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Ingalls Shipbuilding Company, Decatur, Alabama. Stern of an Army barge

Ingalls Shipbuilding Company, Decatur, Alabama. Stern of an Army barge

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Ingalls Shipbuilding Company, Decatur, Alabama. Removing the timbers which support an Army barge, just before launching her

Ingalls Shipbuilding Company, Decatur, Alabama. Removing the timbers w...

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New York, New York. Marine and shipbuilding workers' convention. Walter Nash, Minister of New Zealand to the United States, speaking about the labor situation in his country

New York, New York. Marine and shipbuilding workers' convention. Walte...

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Decatur, Alabama. Ingalls Shipbuilding Company. A section of one of the sides of the stern of a barge being lowered into place

Decatur, Alabama. Ingalls Shipbuilding Company. A section of one of th...

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Manpower. Negro shipyard workers. American manpower draws its skills from all citizens alike. This Negro power drill operator is reaming a hole through which rivets will be driven in the building of warships in an Eastern shipyard. Federal Shipbuilding and Drydock Corporation. Kearny, New Jersey

Manpower. Negro shipyard workers. American manpower draws its skills f...

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Decatur, Alabama. Ingalls Shipbuilding Company. Prefabricated section from Birmingham awaiting to be assembled

Decatur, Alabama. Ingalls Shipbuilding Company. Prefabricated section ...

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Richmond, California. Permanente Metals Corporation, shipbuilding division, yard number two. Robert LaSalle has worked in the shipyards more than a year, and was previously a hairdresser and barber. He was born in Italy

Richmond, California. Permanente Metals Corporation, shipbuilding divi...

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Richmond, California. Permanente Metals Corporation, shipbuilding division, yard number two. Guy Bruno has worked at the yard for six months. He was born in Italy and formerly worked in a cannery

Richmond, California. Permanente Metals Corporation, shipbuilding divi...

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Reciprocal aid. Australian shipbuilding at work on a naval corvette. The hammering insures against scales adhering to joints to be welded. Many new shipyards have been established in Australia for an enlarged naval ship program

Reciprocal aid. Australian shipbuilding at work on a naval corvette. T...

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Steam Tug EPPLETON HALL, Hyde Street Pier, San Francisco, San Francisco County, CA

Steam Tug EPPLETON HALL, Hyde Street Pier, San Francisco, San Francisc...

Significance: The steam side paddlewheel tugboat EPPLETON HALL was the last of the famed British paddleboats to be built. Its engine is the once-common, but now rare, twin sidelever "grasshopper" engine. It ... More

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Maritime head still insists new method for handling maritime labor problems is necessary Washington, D.C., Jan. 26. Appearing before the Senate Labor and Commerce Committees today, U.S. Maritime Commissioner Joseph P. Kennedy declared that union opposition had failed to shake his belief that a new method for handling maritime problems is necessary. Federal Assistance will be necessary to any new development in American Shipbuilding, Kennedy also told the committee. He is shown with Senator Hiram W. Johnson, Republican of California and a member of the committee, 1/26/38

Maritime head still insists new method for handling maritime labor pro...

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Morris L. Cooke, Technical Consultant to Mr. Sidney Hillman and Chairman of the Shipbuilding Stabilization Committee

Morris L. Cooke, Technical Consultant to Mr. Sidney Hillman and Chairm...

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Vallejo, California. Workman at Mare Island shipbuilding yards in his room at FSA (Farm Security Administration) dormitories

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Shipbuilding. "Liberty" ships. This is the midship section of a new member of the Liberty Fleet, nearing completion at a large shipyard. In the background is a maze of scaffolding and cranes typical of the scene in many large American shipyards as builders work to make Uncle Sam master of the seas

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Shipbuilding. "Liberty" ships. Here are two members of the Liberty Fleet lying at anchor in the basin of a large Eastern shipyard, awaiting final fitting and rigging

Shipbuilding. "Liberty" ships. Here are two members of the Liberty Fle...

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Shipbuilding. "Liberty" ships. Most large shipyards have their own rail systems, with several locomotives and flat cars used for hauling heavy ship parts about the yards. This man operates such a locomotive transporting completed sections from a former freight car plant six miles to the ways where they are assembled into completed ships. 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 flat cars. Bethlehem-Fairfield Shipyards Inc., Baltimore, Maryland

Shipbuilding. "Liberty" ships. Most large shipyards have their own rai...

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Shipbuilding (Newport News). This craftsman is measuring the rudder bearing for a new battleship. Split hair accuracy is required in fashioning these watertight fittings

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Shipbuilding (Newport News). Huge overhead cranes are used for the placing of heavy parts in the naval ships under construction at these ways. The setting up of the scaffolding and other structures for shipbuilding is in itself a major project

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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 two-ocean Navy

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

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California Shipbuilding Corporation, Wilmington, California. Workmen going aboard a partially-completed Liberty ship after lunch

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Decatur, Alabama. Ingalls Shipbuilding Company. A welder working on the bulkhead of a barge under construction

Decatur, Alabama. Ingalls Shipbuilding Company. A welder working on th...

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Decatur, Alabama. Ingalls Shipbuilding Company. Waiting in line for paychecks

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Decatur, Alabama. Ingalls Shipbuilding Company. The stern of one of the oceangoing barges under construction

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Decatur, Alabama. Ingalls Shipbuilding Company. One of the welders

Decatur, Alabama. Ingalls Shipbuilding Company. One of the welders

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Decatur, Alabama. Ingalls Shipbuilding Company. Work goes on twenty-four hours a day

Decatur, Alabama. Ingalls Shipbuilding Company. Work goes on twenty-fo...

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Shipbuilding. Pipes and fittings. Copper pipe and steel fittings in the pipe shop at the Wilmington, California, yard of the California Shipbuilding Corporation. The Booker T. Washington, recently launched at this yard, is one of the many freighters the company has built since Pearl Harbor

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