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 #: 28676; Schomburg copy negative #: SC-CN-86-0315; 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. Welders Alivia Scott, Hattie Carpenter and Flossie Burtos await an opportunity to weld their first piece of steel on the ship.
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United States. Office of War Information
1943
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The New York Public LibraryKeywords
- African American Women
- African Americans
- Defense Industry
- Liberty Ships
- Richmond (Calif.)
- War Work
- Women
- Women Welders