File:Skilled women workers helped build SS George Washington Carver.jpg

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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."
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Source New York Public Library
Author E. F. Joseph
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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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