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Identifier	RG0600-0022
Title	Present Garage, Main Shop Building and Administrative Buildings in the Shipyard
Photographer	Litterst Coml. Photo Co.
Contributors	Donor, Bessie Hamaker
Description	View looking Southeast from Gantry Crane on craneway 6 between shipways 5 and 6. Present Garage in foreground. Building will be reconditioned as tool room in the immediate future. Main Shops Building with Mold Loft overhead, at left of picture. Administration Building in center background, with new addition painted dark. Restaurant at right of Administration Building, and Personnel Building at left, with new maintenance shops between Personnel Building and Administration Building. Parking Lot at right background, with access road from Main Highway at left. Smoke in center background is from rubbish pile. Hospital Building may be seen along right edge of Mold Loft. Welding Slabs for shipway number 6 in left foreground.
Date Original	March 13, 1942
Source	4 x 5 ; black-and-white negatives
Type	Image
Language	English
Subject Keywords	Shipyards ; Warships ; Shipbuilding--Texas--Houston ; Shipbuilding--Equipment and Supplies ; Ships ; Ships--Welding
Coverage Spatial	Irish Bend Island Yard -- Houston Shipyard (Houston, Tex.)
Coverage Temporal	1941-1945
Publisher	Electronic version published by Houston Public Library, Houston, Texas.
Collection	RG0600 Houston Shipbuilding Corporation Photographs
HPL Location	Houston Shipbuilding Corporation Photographs, Houston Metropolitan Research Center, Houston Public Library
Rights	Please contact the Houston Metropolitan Research Center, Houston, Texas.
Date Digital	2012
Format	jpg
Digitization Specifications	800dpi ; tiff ; Epson Perfection V700 Photo
Filename	RG0600-0022.tif

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