[Photograph of a child standing on podium conducting a band at the launching of the Liberty ship Henry W. Grady, J.A. Jones Construction Company shipyard, Brunswick, Georgia, 1943 Oct. 22?] Unknown person helping child conduct orchestra

Item

Title

[Photograph of a child standing on podium conducting a band at the launching of the Liberty ship Henry W. Grady, J.A. Jones Construction Company shipyard, Brunswick, Georgia, 1943 Oct. 22?] Unknown person helping child conduct orchestra

Description

A young child standing on a podium helps a man conduct a band during the launching of the Henry W. Grady from the J.A. Jones Construction Company shipyard in Brunswick, Georgia. Members of the band are wearing hard hats, as are some members of the audience, which includes shipyard workers and WACs. The writing visible on some of the hard hats is not legible. Named for Atlanta journalist, political leader, and New South booster Henry Woodfin Grady (1850-1889), the ship was the thirteenth constructed in Brunswick by the J.A. Jones Construction Company. Its keel was laid July 31, 1943. The ship was launched October 22, 1943 and delivered October 30, 1943.||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

Rights

http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/

Date

1943-10-22

Extent

1 photograph : b&w

Medium

black-and-white photographs

Subject

J.A. Jones Construction Company

Henry W. Grady (Ship)

Liberty ships--Georgia--Brunswick

Ships--Launching

Shipbuilding--Georgia--Brunswick

Shipyards--Georgia--Brunswick

Shipbuilding industry--Employees

Rites and ceremonies--Georgia--Brunswick

United States--Social life and customs

Boys--Georgia--Brunswick

Bands (Music)--Georgia--Brunswick

World War, 1939-1945--War work

World War, 1939-1945--Naval operations, American

Type

StillImage

Is Referenced By

https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_vsbg_jaj029

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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Liberty Ships

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