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

Liberman, Howard

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Original negative #: D-4289; Caption on back: "This Negro worker operates a 50-ton crane which reclaims iron out of slag in the 'slag drop' of a large cast coast steel mill which is working full capacity to speed war production. (May 1942)"; Handwritten on back: "Bethlehem Steel Co., Sparrow Point, Md.
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United States. Office of War Information
Created Date:
1942
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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 Iron And Steel Workers
  2. African Americans
  3. Bethlehem Steel Company
  4. Defense Industry
  5. Sparrows Point (Md.)
  6. War Work

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