Skilled women workers helped build SS George Washington Carver
Two African American women, employed to work on the Liberty ship SS George Washington Carver, holding scalers, Kaiser Shipyards, Richmond, California * 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."
- Date
- 1943-04
- Photographer / author
- E. F. Joseph
- Collection
- FSA/OWI
- Archive
- Wikimedia Commons
- Type
- photograph
- Original size
- 2,560 × 2,055 pixels
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Reason: a US government work (Farm Security Administration / Office of War Information).
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