[Photograph of the presentation of flowers at a Liberty ship launching, J.A. Jones Construction Company shipyard, Brunswick, Georgia, 1943] Mrs. Jones and Miss Long

Item

Title
[Photograph of the presentation of flowers at a Liberty ship launching, J.A. Jones Construction Company shipyard, Brunswick, Georgia, 1943] Mrs. Jones and Miss Long
Description
Mrs. Edwin L. Jones and Lilliam Oliver (a welder) with flowers, during a ceremonial Liberty ship launching in the shipyard of the J.A. Jones Construction Company in Brunswick, Georgia. Lilliam Oliver is wearing her work clothes and welder's helmet.||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.
Format
image/jpeg
Date
1943
Extent
1 photograph : b&w
Medium
black-and-white photographs
Subject
J.A. Jones Construction Company
Liberty ships--Georgia--Brunswick
Ships--Launching
Rites and ceremonies--Georgia--Brunswick
United States--Social life and customs
Bouquets--Georgia--Brunswick
Women welders--Georgia--Brunswick
Women and war--Georgia--Brunswick
Shipbuilding--Georgia--Brunswick
Shipyards--Georgia--Brunswick
Shipbuilding industry--Employees
World War, 1939-1945--War work
World War, 1939-1945--Women
Jones, Edwin L., Mrs.||Oliver, Lilliam
Type
StillImage
Bibliographic Citation
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
Source
Brunswick-Glynn County Library (Ga.). Special Collections
Spatial Coverage
United States, Georgia, Glynn County, Brunswick, 31.14995, -81.49149
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