[Photograph of several workers removing wedges to prepare a Liberty ship for launch, J.A. Jones Construction Company shipyard, Brunswick, Georgia, 1943-1945?]
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| Type: | Black-and-white photographs | StillImage |
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| Title: | [Photograph of several workers removing wedges to prepare a Liberty ship for launch, J.A. Jones Construction Company shipyard, Brunswick, Georgia, 1943-1945?] Removing wedges before a ship's launching |
| Date: | 1943-1945 |
| Description: | Several workers in the shipyards of the J.A. Jones Construction Company in Brunswick, Georgia, use a wooden beam threaded with rope handles to remove wedges from the ship's cradle before launching. Original photograph scanned by the Brunswick-Glynn County Library. Described by the Digital Library of Georgia as a part of Georgia HomePLACE: an initiative of the Georgia Public Library Service and GALILEO. |
| Subjects: | J.A. Jones Construction Company | Shipbuilding industry--Employees | Shipbuilding industry--Georgia--Brunswick | Liberty ships--Georgia--Brunswick | Liberty ships--Design and construction | Shipbuilding--Georgia--Brunswick | Shipyards--Georgia--Brunswick | Ships--Launching | World War, 1939-1945--War work | Wedges--Georgia--Brunswick | Wooden beams | Brunswick (Ga.) | Glynn County (Ga.) |
| Contributors: | Brunswick-Glynn County Library (Ga.). Special Collections |
| Online Publisher: | [Athens, Ga] : Digital Library of Georgia, 2005 |
| Original Material: | Photograph held by the Special Collections, Brunswick-Glynn County Library, Three Rivers Regional Library System, J.A. Jones Construction Company collection, Photographs series, The people and the shipyard subseries, notebook 2, photograph 2-23. |
| Rights and Usage: | Cite as: [title of photograph, series, subseries, notebook number, photograph number], J.A. Jones Construction Company collection, Special Collections, Brunswick-Glynn County Library, Three Rivers Regional Library System, as presented in the Digital Library of Georgia Contact repository re: reproduction and usage. |
| Persistent Link to Item: | http://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/vsbg/id:jaj109 |
| Related Institutions: | Digital Library of Georgia Brunswick-Glynn County Library. Special Collections |
| Collection Information: | Ships for Victory: J.A. Jones Construction Company and Liberty Ships in Brunswick, Georgia |