- Collection:
- Ships for Victory: J.A. Jones Construction Company and Liberty Ships in Brunswick, Georgia
- Title:
- [Photograph of Santa watching as Myrtis Campbell counts all the workers, 1944 Dec. 25]
- Date of Original:
- 1944-12-25
- Subject:
- J.A. Jones Construction Company
Santa Claus--Georgia--Brunswick
Christmas--Georgia--Brunswick
Shipbuilding industry--Employees
Liberty ships--Georgia--Brunswick
Shipbuilding--Georgia--Brunswick
Shipyards--Georgia--Brunswick
United States--Social life and customs
World War, 1939-1945--War work
World War, 1939-1945--Naval operations, American - People:
- Campbell, Myrtis
Poole, Frank - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Glynn County, Brunswick, 31.14995, -81.49149
- Medium:
- black-and-white photographs
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- Santa and Director of Public Relations Frank Poole watch Myrtis Campbell, wife of Nat M. Campbell, as she counts workers filing by while sitting at a cash register in what appears to be a lunch room. Employees of the J.A. Jones Construction Company in Brunswick, Georgia worked without pay on Christmas Day, 1944, in support of Allied military personnel serving around the world. Carley Zell furnished free Christmas dinner to all of the workers.
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. - Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_vsbg_jaj088
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_vsbg_jaj088#item
- IIIF manifest:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_vsbg_jaj088/presentation/manifest.json
- Bibliographic Citation (Cite As):
- Cite as: [title of photograph, series, subseries, notebook number, photograph number], J.A. Jones Construction Company collection, Special Collections, Brunswick-Glynn County Library, Marshes of Glynn Libraries, as presented in the Digital Library of Georgia
- Extent:
- 1 photograph : b&w
- Original Collection:
- Photograph held by the Special Collections, Brunswick-Glynn County Library, Marshes of Glynn Libraries, J.A. Jones Construction Company collection, Photographs series, Special Christmas subseries, notebook 2, photograph 2-3.
- Holding Institution:
- Brunswick-Glynn County Library (Ga.). Special Collections
- Rights:
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