[Cargo vessel nearing to completion at California Shipbuilding Corporation yard]

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Local identifier: AAE-1686
Title: [Cargo vessel nearing to completion at California Shipbuilding Corporation yard]
Date: 1941 Aug. 14
Issuance: monographic
Associated Group: International News Photos (New York, N.Y.)
San Francisco Call Bulletin
San Francisco News-Call Bulletin
Collection: San Francisco Historical Photograph Collection
Type of Resource: still image
Physical Description: 1 photographic print : b&w.
Form: graphic
Use and Reproduction: Permission to use this image must be obtained from the San Francisco History Center, San Francisco Public Library. www.sfpl.org/permissions.
Note: Folder: S.F. Ships-Shipbuilding.
Newscopy: "First Cargo Vessel Two Months Ahead of Schedule - Terminal island, Calif.: Two months ahead of schedule, the first of 55 cargo vessels, part of 'bridge of ships to Britain,' pictured nearing completion at the California Shipbuilding Corporation yard here. The ships, ordered by the Maritime Commission, are capacious cargo boats, built for carrying capacity rather than speed. Unofficially they are known as 'ugly ducklings'."
Language (code): eng
Genre: graphic
LCSH Subjects: San Francisco (Calif.)--Photographs
Shipbuilding
Bibliographic Number: .b10369843
Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12352/islandora:151950