Payne, Elwood M.
Person
Found in 1 Collection or Record:
Bessie Hamaker Collection of Houston Shipbuilding Corporation Photographs
Collection
Identifier: RG 0600
Scope and Contents
This collection contains copy negatives and contact prints of ships completed and in the process of being built, as well as other photographs showing the Houston Shipbuilding Corporation's Irish Bend Island Yard.Images include trains, train tracks, trucks, gantry cranes, scaffolding, buildings, and aerial views. Ships are depicted in various stages of construction, as well as in the water. Some photographs show the formal launch of ships. The facilities shown at the...
Dates:
October 30, 1941 - July 28, 1943
