File:PT boat production Higgins 1942.jpg

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Production. Motor torpedo boats (wooden).   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
Author
Howard R. Hollem  (–1949)  wikidata:Q12020452
 
Description American photographer
FSA / OWI
Date of birth/death 1949 Edit this at Wikidata
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creator QS:P170,Q12020452
Title
Production. Motor torpedo boats (wooden).
Description
Wooden motor torpedo boats for the Navy are built of prefabricated parts and sections in a large Southern shipyard. These fast seventy-eight-footers are built under roof and moved to a nearby waterway for launching and fitting. Higgins Industries
Date July 1942
date QS:P571,+1942-07-00T00:00:00Z/10
Medium 1 negative : nitrate
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-006841 (b&w film nitrate neg.)
  • LC-DIG-fsa-8b07676 (digital file from original neg.)
  • Call Number: LC-USE6- D-006841 [P&P]
Notes
  • Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches).
  • Title and other information from caption card.
  • 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 33, frame 394.
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Photo by Howard R. Hollem; high-res TIF at Library of Congress website converted to jpg, non-photographic border cropped, and levels slightly adjusted before uploading to Wikimedia Commons.


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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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current21:22, 15 June 2021Thumbnail for version as of 21:22, 15 June 20219,040 × 6,989 (29.65 MB)Infrogmation (talk | contribs)same, from much higher res tif now at LOC website.
23:24, 28 June 2012Thumbnail for version as of 23:24, 28 June 2012927 × 703 (215 KB)Infrogmation (talk | contribs)Somewhat higher res from same source
21:58, 19 August 2009Thumbnail for version as of 21:58, 19 August 2009496 × 375 (57 KB)Cobatfor (talk | contribs)== {{int:filedesc}} == {{Information |Description=Construction of 78 foot PT boats at Higgins Industries, New Orleans, Louisiana (USA), circa 1942. |Source={{LOC-image|id=fsa.8b07676}} |Date=1942 |Author=unknown |Permission= |other_versions=frame removed

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