[Photograph of Santa visiting workers at the J.A. Jones Construction Company shipyards, Brunswick, Georgia, 1944 Dec. 25?] Santa with shipyard workers

Item

Title
[Photograph of Santa visiting workers at the J.A. Jones Construction Company shipyards, Brunswick, Georgia, 1944 Dec. 25?] Santa with shipyard workers
Description
Santa visits with workers of the J.A. Jones Construction Company in Brunswick, Georgia, who worked without pay on Christmas Day, 1944, in support of Allied military personnel serving around the world. The photograph is divided into two separate sections: in the top section, Santa shakes hands with general manager Emil J. Kratt in front of a line of factory workers; in the bottom section, he assists two female construction workers (in hard hats) while other employees look on.||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
1944-12-25
Extent
1 photograph : b&w
Medium
black-and-white photographs
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
Rivets and riveting
World War, 1939-1945--War work
World War, 1939-1945--Naval operations, American
Kratt, Emil J.
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
Site pages
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