AAC-2243

Cargo being loaded onto a vessel

1945-03-07

Still image

1 photographic print: b&w.

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Folder: S.F. Districts-Waterfront-1940's-Longshoremen.
Newscopy: "Singing winches and exacting men have made this the greatest of ports in the world's most terrible war just ending. Above is a typical war cargo loading scene. As Harbor Day is celebrated today, the shipping companies whose operations have improved upon nature's wondrous gifts, are completely alert to the future - both from st(?) of water and air transportation."
Typed on back: "SFPE 44-481-73-- Pallet board load of supplies going over the side of a freighter at a San Francisco Port of Embarkation, a transportation corps installation, such as this saves rehandling of boxed cargo at the pier, as boxes are placed on pallets on arrival at a Fort Mason warehouse and are handled by the pallet load thereafter."

brn: .b10171344

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