Yard Scene, Wheeler Shipbuilding Corporation, Whitestone, Long Island, NY, 1944

safety negative

PHOTOGRAPHS
Rosenfeld and Sons
USA, NY, Long Island, Whitestone
1944-04-10
safety film
overall: 10 x 8 in.

8x10 safety negative photographed by Rosenfeld and Sons on April 10, 1944. Image of boatbuilding at Wheeler Shipbuilding Corporation, Whitestone, Long Island, NY. Visible in image: "MANITOWOC / Speed crane" lifting parts of a ship and placing them on the stocks outside, two men guide the piece into place "US ARMY / FP" (freight and passenger) boat in background obscured by boatbuilding. CREDIT LINE: Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection. Typed on original negative sleeve: “59877 4/10/44 / 2754-12 / Wheeler-Whitestone / yard scene“.

1984.187.59877

Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection