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Shipbuilding. "Liberty" ships. This worker is laying out steel plates from wood templates, or patterns. The patterns indicate rivet hole locations and other necessary information. All parts are prefabricated in this Eastern plant which used to turn out freight cars. Completed sections are carried six miles to the ways on flat cars. Bethlehem-Fairfield Shipyards Inc., Baltimore, Maryland

Shipbuilding. "Liberty" ships. Wooden templates are used as patterns for the laying out of a number of steel plates. This worker is carrying the template 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. Knee brackets ready to be welded between the ship's deck beams and frames ( or ribs) at the start of the production line. 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 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. Wooden templates are used as patterns for the laying out of a number of steel plates. This worker is carrying the template 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. 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

A black and white photo of a man in a pipe. Office of War Information Photograph

Shipbuilding. "Liberty" ships. These are shell frames and deck brackets ready to be welded between deck beams and frames for ship of the Liberty Fleet 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 flat cars. Bethlehem-Fairfield Shipyards Inc., Baltimore, Maryland

Shipbuilding. "Liberty" ships. Wooden templates are used as patterns for the laying out of a number of steel plates. This worker is carrying the template 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. This worker is laying out steel plates from wood templates, or patterns. The patterns indicate rivet hole locations and other necessary information. All parts are prefabricated in this Eastern plant which used to turn out freight cars. Completed sections are carried six miles to the ways on flat cars. Bethlehem-Fairfield Shipyards Inc., Baltimore, Maryland

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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 information about the FSA/OWI Collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsaowi

Film copy on SIS roll 30, frame 1433.

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label_outline Explore Lot 2069, Steel Plates, Six Miles

Bethlehem Fairfield shipyards, near Baltimore, Maryland. Construction of a Liberty ship. On the third day the bottom is completed except for forward and aft ends, and on it have been set inner bottom tanks for fuel or ballast. The midships bulkhead has been raised

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

Production. Jeep engines. This grinding machine in a Midwest plant is doing yeoman service in the production of jeep engines for the Army. Continental Motors, Michigan

Bethlehem-Fairfield shipyards, Baltimore, Maryland. General view of the after ends of the ways

Shipbuilding. "Liberty" ships. This maze of rolling cranes, at a large Eastern shipyard is a typical scene in many large shipyards at work on ships for Uncle Sam's Navy and merchant fleet. Stocks of material are piled up for the cranes to take to vessels under construction so there is no delay in production while waiting for sections or materials. 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

Production. Pratt and Whitney airplane engines. Cylinder heads for R-1340 Wasp planes are inspected in a large Eastern plant now producing a huge number of fine American engines for our fighting air forces. Pratt and Whitney Aircraft

184-inch cyclotron, calutron conversion, steel plates in foreground. Photo taken 9/01/1945. Confidential, declassified 4/30/1959. Principal Investigator/Project: Analog Conversion Project

(Oriental textile samples (1700) (14578251130)

Bethlehem-Fairfield shipyards, Baltimore, Maryland. Working on innerbottom units

A black and white photo of a woman working on a machine. Office of War Information Photograph

Conversion. Floor waxer plant. Normally used in manufacture of floor waxers, as shown here, this five-spindle drill press is now used full-time on defense orders for which this small Eastern plant is under subcontract. Floorola Products Inc., York, Pennsylvania

Jeanne d'Arc from "The National and Domestic History of England ... With numerous steel plates, coloured pictures, etc"

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maryland baltimore safety film negatives lot 2069 alfred t palmer united states office for emergency management photo patterns rivet hole locations freight cars steel plates wood templates eastern plant cars six miles bethlehem fairfield shipyards office of war information farm security administration biblical events bethlehem united states history industrial history factory workers industrial facilities shipyard library of congress