". Welders Alivia Scott, Hattie Carpenter, and Flossie Burtos await an opportunity to weld their first piece of steel on the ship SS George Washington Carver."

". Welders Alivia Scott, Hattie Carpenter, and Flossie Burtos await an opportunity to weld their first piece of steel on the ship SS George Washington Carver.", ca. 1943

Mis Gladys Theus, one of the fastest and most efficient welders at the Kaiser Company Permanente Metals Corporation yards near Oakland, Calif., is sticking to her job until final victory is won.

Kaiser shipyards, Richmond, California.

Skilled women workers helped build SS George Washington Carver

California shipyard workers. Attired in a welder's outfit this worker is one of California's many women shipyard workers employed at the Richmond Shipbuilding Company Creator(s): Rosener, Ann, photographer Related Names: United States. Office of War Information. Date Created/Published: 1943 Feb. Med

With nearly 1000 African-American women employed as burners, welders, scalers, and in other capacities at the Kaiser Shipyards in Richmond, California, women war workers played an important part in the construction of the Liberty Ship, SS George Washington Carver, launched on May 7th, 1943. Welder

African American worker Richmond Shipyards

Kaiser shipyards, Richmond, California Miss Eastine Cowner, a former waitress, is helping in her job as a scaler to construct the Liberty Ship SS George Washington Carver launched on May 7, 1943.