File:Liberty ship construction 06 side plates.jpg

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Shipbuilding. "Liberty" ships.   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
Author
Alfred T. Palmer  (1906–1993)  wikidata:Q2895582
 
Alfred T. Palmer
Description American photographer
Date of birth/death 17 March 1906 Edit this at Wikidata 31 January 1993 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death San Jose Larkspur
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creator QS:P170,Q2895582
Title
Shipbuilding. "Liberty" ships.
Description

A new vessel has just moved off these ways, and the keel is being assembled for yet another in a large Eastern shipyard. The bottom and side shell plating and the inner tank sections are being assembled. All parts are prefabricated in this huge Eastern plant which formerly turned out freight cars. The completed sections are then carried six miles to the ways on flat cars

Construction of a Liberty ship at Bethlehem-Fairfield Shipyards Inc., Baltimore, Maryland (USA) in March/April 1943 Assembly of the bottom and side shell plating and the inner tank sections.
Date circa 1941
date QS:P571,+1941-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
Medium 1 negative : safety
Dimensions 4 x 5 inches or smaller.
institution QS:P195,Q131454
Prints & Photographs Division Washington, DC 20540 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
Accession number
  • Reproduction Number: LC-USE6-D-002370 (b&w film neg.)
  • Call Number: LC-USE6- D-002370 [P&P]
Notes
  • Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches).
  • Title and other information from caption card.
  • LOT 2069 (Location of corresponding print.)
  • Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944.
  • More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsaowi
  • Film copy on SIS roll 30, frame 1458.
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This image is available from the United States Library of Congress's Prints and Photographs division
under the digital ID fsa.8b01707.
This tag does not indicate the copyright status of the attached work. A normal copyright tag is still required. See Commons:Licensing.

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Public domain This image is a work of an employee of the United States Farm Security Administration or Office of War Information domestic photographic units, taken as part of that person's official duties. As a work of the U.S. federal government, the image is in the public domain in the United States. See Copyright.

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