[Photograph of a large group of people at a Liberty ship launching, J.A. Jones Construction Company shipyard, Brunswick, Georgia, 1943] Crowd at Liberty ship launching 1943

Item

Title
[Photograph of a large group of people at a Liberty ship launching, J.A. Jones Construction Company shipyard, Brunswick, Georgia, 1943] Crowd at Liberty ship launching 1943
Description
Group of civilians watching a ship launching in the shipyard of the J.A. Jones Construction Company in Brunswick, Georgia. The shipyard and workers sporting hard hats can be seen in the background.||Photograph held by the Special Collections, Brunswick-Glynn County Library, Marshes of Glynn Libraries, J.A. Jones Construction Company collection, Photographs series, Ship launchings subseries, notebook 1, photograph 1-28.||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
Shipbuilding--Georgia--Brunswick
Shipyards--Georgia--Brunswick
Rites and ceremonies--Georgia--Brunswick
United States--Social life and customs
World War, 1939-1945--War work
Type
StillImage
Bibliographic Citation
Cite as: [title of photograph, series, notebook number, photograph number], J.A. Jones Construction Company records, 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
Site pages
Image Index

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