Lot 2073-12
Manpower: African-American Philadelphia Navy Yard Workers. American manpower builds America’s fighting ships. This giant ship propeller which will grace an American fighting ship is receiving a pneumatic chipping operation from an African-American worker, May 1942. Office of War Information Photograph. Courtesy of the. (2016/05/12)
- Date
- 2016
- Photographer / author
- National Museum of the U.S. Navy
- Archive
- Wikimedia Commons
- Type
- photograph
- Original size
- 2,824 × 2,208 pixels
Public domainsafest
Reason: a US government work (US Navy).
Read from: Commons licence category: PD US Navy; no CC BY, CC BY-SA, GFDL or deletion tag on the file page.
Credit line
"Lot 2073-12" (2016). National Museum of the U.S. Navy, via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lot_2073-12_(26958771966).jpgNeed photos for a whole script? Add Find Any Photo to Claude and ask for this one by its id: 6854.
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