Shipbuilding (Norfolk Navy Yard). One of the major advances in shipbuilding during the last few years has been the substitution of welding for rivets in a number of vital parts of warcraft. Welding means much less weight and much less steel for each ship. This welder, working on the nose section of a new destroyer, is one of hundreds working on vessels under construction at Norfolk
Summary
Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches).
Title and other information from caption card.
Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944.
More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsaowi
Film copy on SIS roll 30, frame 880.
Tags
Date
01/01/1941
Location
norfolk
Source
Library of Congress
Copyright info
Public Domain