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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 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

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Production. Subchasers. Galvanizing nuts and bolts for use on subchasers under construction in a Southern shipyard. This man used to run a printing shop and tourist camp. Now, as a galvanizer and also a welder, he has helped the shipyard earn the coveted Navy "E"

Production. Subchasers. Galvanizing nuts and bolts for use on subchasers under construction in a Southern shipyard. This man used to run a printing shop and tourist camp. Now, as a galvanizer and also a welder, he has helped the shipyard earn the coveted Navy "E"

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01/01/1942
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Hollem, Howard R., photographer
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Autos and trailers encamped in a tourist camp used by migrant fruit workers, near Belle Glade, Florida

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Transformer manufacture. Welding is an intrinsic part of the manufacture of transformers. This welder is employed by a large Eastern electrical company whose power transformers are needed by many factories engaged in war Production. Westinghouse, Sharon, Pennsylvania

Production. Small ramp boats. Fitting and painting small wooden ramp boats at a Southern shipyard. These thirty-six-foot carriers, built of prefabricated sections, are used for making beach landings of men and equipment. The completed boats are launched by crane and delivered in tows of six to eight. Higgins Industries

Södra varvet - Corp de logis. Sverige. Public domain image.

Senior Airman Martin Githui, 81st Contracting Squadron

Rushing the SS George Washington Carver to completion. Negro skilled workers played an important part in the construction of the SS George Washington Carver, second Liberty Ship named for a Negro, in the Richmond Shipyard No. 1 of the Kaiser Company. Mack Hayes, journeyman welder, graduated from the Richmond welding school before beginning work for Kaiser eight months ago

Conversion. Food machinery plant. This turret lathe was purchased second-hand from a nearby shoe factory to speed production on war subcontracts held by a New England plant which formerly turned out cube steak machinery. Edwin Becker is checking on a retooling job in progress which will eventually fit the new lathe to thread three-and-a-quarter-inch hexagonal nuts. Becker is checking the measurements of the tool hole in the turret with those of the specially-built tap which will do the threading. Cube Steak Machine Company, Boston, Massachusetts

Production. Submarine chasers. Out of commission for the duration. A pleasure yacht is laid up at the yard of an Eastern boat builder now making subchasers and other Navy boats exclusively. Marine Construction Company, Stamford, Connecticut

Transformer manufacture. Welding is an intrinsic part of the manufacture of transformers. This welder is employed by a large Eastern electrical company whose power transformers are needed by many factories engaged in war production. He's welding cover flanges for steel transformer tanks. Westinghouse, Sharon, Pennsylvania

Tourist camp which has been enlarged to accommodate trailers of construction workers of Shasta Dam, Shasta County, California

Manuel, the young shrimp-picker, five years old, and a mountain of child-labor oyster shells behind him. He worked last year. Understands not a word of English. Dunbar, Lopez, Dukate Company. Location: Biloxi, Mississippi

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mississippi harrison county biloxi safety film negatives production subchasers nuts bolts construction southern shipyard southern shipyard man shop tourist camp tourist camp galvanizer welder navy 1940 s 40 s us navy united states history library of congress