- Collection:
- Ships for Victory: J.A. Jones Construction Company and Liberty Ships in Brunswick, Georgia
- Title:
- [Photograph of several workers removing wedges to prepare a Liberty ship for launch, J.A. Jones Construction Company shipyard, Brunswick, Georgia, 1943-1945?]
- Date of Original:
- 1943/1945
- Subject:
- 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
Wedges--Georgia--Brunswick
Wooden beams
World War, 1939-1945--War work
World War, 1939-1945--Naval operations, American - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Glynn County, Brunswick, 31.14995, -81.49149
- Medium:
- black-and-white photographs
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- 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. - Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_vsbg_jaj109
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_vsbg_jaj109#item
- IIIF manifest:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_vsbg_jaj109/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, The people and the shipyard subseries, notebook 2, photograph 2-23.
- Holding Institution:
- Brunswick-Glynn County Library (Ga.). Special Collections
- Rights:
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