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Skilled women workers helped build SS George Washington Carver

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@ Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Photographs and Prints Division. The New York Public Library

Joseph, E. F

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Original negative #: 28675; Schomburg copy negative #: SC-CN-84-0211; Caption on back: "With nearly 1,000 Negro women employed as burners, welders, scalers and in other capacities at the Kaiser Shipyards in Richmond, Calif., women war workers played an important part in the construction of the Liberty Ship, SS George Washington Carver, launched on May 7, 1943. Two women scalers are shown at work.
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Photographs
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United States. Office of War Information
Created Date:
1943
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Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Photographs and Prints Division. The New York Public Library

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Keywords

  1. African American Women
  2. African Americans
  3. Defense Industry
  4. Liberty Ships
  5. Richmond (Calif.)
  6. Shipbuilding
  7. War Work
  8. Women
  9. Women In War
  10. Women Iron And Steel Workers

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