Content: Caption on back: "Thousands of Negro shipyard workers in the Kaiser yards at Richmond, Calif., participated in the launching of the SS S. Hall Young on March 31, 1943, after Miss Beulah Whittington, an employee of three days' standing, drew sponsor's ticket from a pool of 35,000 employees; Marcus Hall, shipyard worker who is a protege of Roland Hayes, was soloist at the launching ceremony in Richmond Shipyard No. 2; The liberty ship SS George Washington Carver will be launched soon at the adjacent Richmond Shipyard No. 1."

Physical Description

Gelatin silver prints
Extent: 1 photographic print : Gelatin silver ; 8 x 10 in.

Identifiers

NYPL Catalog ID (bnumber): b13049857
RLIN/OCLC: NYPG96-F156
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): 81a4a1c0-c645-012f-a37d-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. "Marcus Hall, an African American shipyard worker, singing at the ship launching of the SS S. Hall Young at Richmond Shipyard No. 2" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1943. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/81a4a1c0-c645-012f-a37d-58d385a7bc34

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Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Photographs and Prints Division, The New York Public Library. (1943). Marcus Hall, an African American shipyard worker, singing at the ship launching of the SS S. Hall Young at Richmond Shipyard No. 2 Retrieved from https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/81a4a1c0-c645-012f-a37d-58d385a7bc34

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Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Photographs and Prints Division, The New York Public Library. "Marcus Hall, an African American shipyard worker, singing at the ship launching of the SS S. Hall Young at Richmond Shipyard No. 2" New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed November 8, 2025. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/81a4a1c0-c645-012f-a37d-58d385a7bc34

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