Mrs. Jessie Matthews Vann (center) holding a bouquet of flowers and flanked by C.C. Spaulding (left), president of the North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company, and Dr. Emmett J. Scott (right), of the Sun Shipbuilding Company, at the launching of Liberty ship SS Robert L. Vann
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Mrs. Jessie Matthews Vann (center) holding a bouquet of flowers and flanked by C.C. Spaulding (left), president of the North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company, and Dr. Emmett J. Scott (right), of the Sun Shipbuilding Company, at the launching of Liberty ship SS Robert L. Vann
Collection
Military
World War II
Ship launchings (Liberty ships)
Names
Smith, Roger (Photographer)
Date / Origin
Date Created: 1943-10-10
Place: Portland, Maine
Library Location
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Photographs and Prints Division
Shelf locator: Sc Photo Military
Subjects
African Americans
African-American soldiers
Armed Forces -- United States
World War, 1939-1945
Liberty ships
African American women
Portland (Me.)
African American businesspeople
Scott, Emmett J. (Emmett Jay), 1873-1957
Spaulding, C. C. (Charles Clinton), 1874-1952
Launchings
Lampkin, Daisy E. (Daisy Elizabeth), 1882-1965
Genres
Notes
Content: Caption on back: "A part of the group of almost a hundred friends and associates of the late Robert L. Vann, noted lawyer and publicist, who attended the launching of liberty ship named in his honor at Portland, Maine, yard of New England Shipbuilding Company on October 10; In the foreground are: C. C. Spaulding, President of the North Carolina Insurance Mutual Life Company, who was the principal speaker at the launching; Mrs. Jessie Matthews Vann, widow of the publisher; Dr. Emmett J. Scott the Sun Shipbuilding Company; and Mrs. Daisy Lampkin, Vice-President of the Pittsburgh Courier Publishing Company."
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): 86ab0c20-c645-012f-0f40-58d385a7bc34
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Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Photographs and Prints Division, The New York Public Library. "Mrs. Jessie Matthews Vann (center) holding a bouquet of flowers and flanked by C.C. Spaulding (left), president of the North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company, and Dr. Emmett J. Scott (right), of the Sun Shipbuilding Company, at the launching of Liberty ship SS Robert L. Vann" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1943. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/86ab0c20-c645-012f-0f40-58d385a7bc34
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Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Photographs and Prints Division, The New York Public Library. (1943). Mrs. Jessie Matthews Vann (center) holding a bouquet of flowers and flanked by C.C. Spaulding (left), president of the North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company, and Dr. Emmett J. Scott (right), of the Sun Shipbuilding Company, at the launching of Liberty ship SS Robert L. Vann Retrieved from https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/86ab0c20-c645-012f-0f40-58d385a7bc34
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Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Photographs and Prints Division, The New York Public Library. "Mrs. Jessie Matthews Vann (center) holding a bouquet of flowers and flanked by C.C. Spaulding (left), president of the North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company, and Dr. Emmett J. Scott (right), of the Sun Shipbuilding Company, at the launching of Liberty ship SS Robert L. Vann" New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed December 13, 2025. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/86ab0c20-c645-012f-0f40-58d385a7bc34
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<ref name=NYPL>{{cite web | url=https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/86ab0c20-c645-012f-0f40-58d385a7bc34 | title= (still image) Mrs. Jessie Matthews Vann (center) holding a bouquet of flowers and flanked by C.C. Spaulding (left), president of the North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company, and Dr. Emmett J. Scott (right), of the Sun Shipbuilding Company, at the launching of Liberty ship SS Robert L. Vann (1943) | author=Digital Collections, The New York Public Library | accessdate=December 13, 2025 | publisher=The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox, and Tilden Foundations}}</ref>