Content: Original negative #: 28673; Schomburg copy negative #: SC-CN-81-0067; 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. Miss Eastine Cowner, a former waitress, is shown at her job as a scaler."

Physical Description

Extent: 1 photographic print: gelatin silver, 8 x 10 in.

Identifiers

NYPL Catalog ID (bnumber): b16181531
RLIN/OCLC: NYPG03-F224
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): 362e0040-c6d1-012f-a9ee-58d385a7bc34

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Type Of Resource

Still Image

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MLA format

Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Photographs and Prints Division, The New York Public Library. "Skilled women workers helped build SS George Washington Carver." The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1943. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/362e0040-c6d1-012f-a9ee-58d385a7bc34

APA format

Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Photographs and Prints Division, The New York Public Library. (1943). Skilled women workers helped build SS George Washington Carver. Retrieved from https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/362e0040-c6d1-012f-a9ee-58d385a7bc34

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Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Photographs and Prints Division, The New York Public Library. "Skilled women workers helped build SS George Washington Carver." New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed November 11, 2025. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/362e0040-c6d1-012f-a9ee-58d385a7bc34

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