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Rosie the Riveter National Historical Park, Richmond Shipyard No. 3, Point Potrero, Richmond, Contra Costa County, CA

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Rosie the Riveter National Historical Park, Richmond Shipyard No. 3, Point Potrero, Richmond, Contra Costa County, CA

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Photographs were taken while shooting the SS WAPAMA which was moored in Graving Dock No. 3.
STORED OFF SITE AND ON SITE. mchr
Significance: Henry J. Kaiser's enterprise built and operated four shipyards at Richmond, California, for the U.S. Maritime Commission during World War II. Richmond Shipyard No. 3 is significant as the only one of the four Richmond shipyards that survives. The shipyard embodies the amazing accomplishment of American industries and American Home-Front workers in producing the ships and other materiel necessary for the military forces of the United States and its allies to defeat the Axis powers during World War II. Richmond Shipyard No. 3 has significant associations with the U.S. Maritime Commission, which oversaw the nationwide program to build emergency shipyards and then to equip and staff those shipyards so that record numbers of Liberty ships and other merchant vessels could be built in support of the war effort; with Henry J. Kaiser, one of the most remarkable of America's wartime industrialists for the extent of production by his enterprises; and with the important roles that wartime industries in the U.S. played in shaping the course of American society after the war, such as the opening of industrial work places to women and people of color.
Survey number: HAER CA-326-M
Building/structure dates: 1942 Initial Construction

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1969 - 1980
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Historic American Engineering Record, creator
U/S/ Maritime Commission
Kaiser, Henry J
Roosevelt, Franklin D
Land, Emory S
Vickery, Howard LeRoy
W A Bechtel
Morrison-Knudsen Company
Six Companies
Bath Iron Works Corporation
Todd Shipyards Corporation
The Henry J Kaiser Company
General Construction Company
Permanente Metals Corporation
Kaiser, Edgar F
Parr, Fred
Todd Shipbuilding Corporation
Bedford, Clay
Gibbs & Cox, Incorporated
Richmond Shipbuilding Corporation
Hannay, Edwin W
Friel, Harry J
Peacock, Dan C
Bedford, Tim
Hannay, Edwin W
Nicholls, Maurice
Oppenheim, David A
Joshua Hendy Iron Works
Marinship
American Federation of Labor
Congress of Industrial Organization
O'Connor, Richard, project manager
Christianson, Justine, transmitter
Quivik, Fredric L, historian
Lowe, Jet, photographer
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Library of Congress
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No known restrictions on images made by the U.S. Government; images copied from other sources may be restricted. http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/114_habs.html

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