[Photograph of the kitchen crew preparing dinner with Santa looking on, J.A. Jones Construction Company shipyard, Brunswick, Georgia, 1944 Dec. 25] Santa helps kitchen crew prepare dinner

Item

Title

[Photograph of the kitchen crew preparing dinner with Santa looking on, J.A. Jones Construction Company shipyard, Brunswick, Georgia, 1944 Dec. 25] Santa helps kitchen crew prepare dinner

Description

An impromptu kitchen crew helps prepare Christmas dinner for all shipyard workers of the J.A. Jones Construction Company in Brunswick, Georgia, who worked without pay on Christmas Day, 1944, as an act of support for Allied military personnel worldwide. The free meal was provided by Carley Zell. Front, with both hands in flour: Nat M. Campbell, office assistant and payroll superintendent, and a payroll superintendent and war bonds chairman (unknown). Back: George Mon, a director of shipyard security (unknown), Duncan Morton, Santa, and a security guard (unknown).||Truncated number in lower right corner of photograph.||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

1944-12-25

Extent

1 photograph : b&w

Medium

black-and-white photographs

Subject

J.A. Jones Construction Company

Kitchens--Georgia--Brunswick

Kitchen utensils--Georgia--Brunswick

Pots--Georgia--Brunswick

Christmas cookery--Georgia--Brunswick

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

World War, 1939-1945--War work

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

Campbell, Nat M.||Zell, Carley||Mon, George||Morton, Duncan

Type

StillImage

Is Referenced By

https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_vsbg_jaj090

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

Item sets

Liberty Ships

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Media

dlg_vsbg_jaj090.jpg