Content: Caption on back: "John H. Murphy, Sr., native of Baltimore, Md., and founder of the Afro-American Newspapers, was honored on March 29, when a liberty ship bearing his name was launched at the Bethlehem-Fairfield Shipyard in that city, in the presence of many civic and religious leaders, as well as 36 relatives; Photo shows the SS John H. Murphy just after she slid down the ways into Curtis Bay."

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
Other local Identifier: A-44-236
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): 876acd80-c645-012f-8aea-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. "Bow-side view of Liberty ship SS John H. Murphy just after it slid down the ways into the Curtis Bay on the day of its launching" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1944. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/876acd80-c645-012f-8aea-58d385a7bc34

APA format

Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Photographs and Prints Division, The New York Public Library. (1944). Bow-side view of Liberty ship SS John H. Murphy just after it slid down the ways into the Curtis Bay on the day of its launching Retrieved from https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/876acd80-c645-012f-8aea-58d385a7bc34

Chicago/Turabian Format

Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Photographs and Prints Division, The New York Public Library. "Bow-side view of Liberty ship SS John H. Murphy just after it slid down the ways into the Curtis Bay on the day of its launching" New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed December 5, 2025. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/876acd80-c645-012f-8aea-58d385a7bc34

Wikipedia citation

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