Production. Launching of the SS Booker T. Washington. America needs ships to carry its guns and tanks and planes to the battlefronts of the world. A few minutes after the SS Booker T. Washington, first Liberty Ship named for a Negro, was launched at the California Shipbuilding Corporation's Wilmington yards, workmen were busy laying the keel for a new ship in America's growing Victory Fleet
Summary
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 32, frame 302.
Tags
Date
01/01/1942
Location
california
Source
Library of Congress
Copyright info
Public Domain