Portrait showing a group of unidentified workers, almost all men, posing among parts and machinery in a work area at the Albina Engine & Machine Works shipyard in Portland. The number 46 is written on the negative and is visible in the lower right corner of the image. Information based on the following unverified note written on the negative sleeve: “Albina shipbuilding.” Image note: Damaged negative emulsion.
Portrait showing an unidentified worker standing next to a sign at the Albina Engine & Machine Works shipyard in Portland. He is smiling and facing front. Across the top of the sign are the words “ALBINA AT BAT.” The sign depicts a baseball player holding a bat decorated with the United States stars and stripes. Flying toward the player are three cartoon heads. One caricature depicts Hideki Tōjō; one depicts Adolf Hitler; and one depicts Benito Mussolini. The sign is also shown in image Nos. 375A0678, 375A0679, and 375A0681. The number 191 is written on the negative and is faintly visible in the lower right corner of the image. The text “Albina shipbuilding” is written on the negative sleeve.
Photograph showing a group of 10 unidentified workers, all men, posing outdoors at the Albina Engine & Machine Works shipyard in Portland. The number 169 is written on the negative and is visible in the lower right corner of the image. Information based on the following unverified note written on the negative sleeve: “Albina shipbuilding.”
Photograph showing two unidentified workers outside a corrugated metal building at the Albina Engine & Machine Works shipyard in Portland. One man is sitting on the edge of a wooden crate and the other is standing next to him. Both are smoking pipes and holding lunch boxes and thermoses. A third person is looking out the window of the building. The number 174 is written on the negative and is visible in the lower right corner of the image. Information based on the following unverified note written on the negative sleeve: “Albina shipbuilding.”
Photograph showing a group of unidentified employees at desks and tables in an office at the Albina Engine & Machine Works shipyard in Portland. Hanging on the wall in the background is a board with the words “TIME OFFICE / BULLETIN BOARD” at the top. The number 182 is written on the negative and is visible in the lower right corner of the image. Information based on the following unverified note written on the negative sleeve: “Albina shipbuilding.”
Photograph showing an unidentified worker examining a slab of metal at the Albina Engine & Machine Works shipyard in Portland. He is leaning over with his face close to the slab and has one hand on a hammer. He is holding a cigarette on the other hand and is exhaling smoke. On the slab are regular rows of square holes or depressions. The number 184 is written on the negative and is faintly visible in the lower right corner of the image. Information based on the following unverified note written on the negative sleeve: “Albina shipbuilding.”
Photograph showing three unidentified employees talking through the open windows of an office at the Albina Engine & Machine Works shipyard in Portland. Inside the office are two women standing at a counter, facing to the left. Outside the office is a man leaning on the counter and looking at the woman opposite him. The number 186 is written on the negative and is visible in the lower right corner of the image. Information based on the following unverified note written on the negative sleeve: “Albina shipbuilding.”
Photograph showing an unidentified employee in an office at the Albina Engine & Machine Works shipyard in Portland. He is sitting at a desk, facing to the left, and is holding a telephone receiver in one hand and a pencil in the other. He is wearing a stocking cap, suit, and galoshes. The number 188 is written on the negative and is visible in the lower right corner of the image. Information based on the following unverified note written on the negative sleeve: “Albina shipbuilding.”
Photograph showing an unidentified employee sitting at a desk in an office at the Albina Engine & Machine Works shipyard in Portland. He facing left, leaning back in his chair, and holding a telephone receiver to his ear. He is wearing an Albina identification button with the number 1798 on it. The number 56 Is written on the negative and is visible in the lower right corner of the image. The note “Albina shipbuilding” is written on the negative sleeve.
Photograph, taken from one end, showing the keel of a vessel under construction at the Albina Engine & Machine Works shipyard in Portland. Unidentified workers are standing on and next to the vessel. The number 73 is written on the negative and is visible in the lower right corner of the image. Information based on the following unverified note written on the negative sleeve: “Albina shipbuilding.”
Two workers machining pieces of pipe at Albina Engine & Machine Works in Portland. One man leans downward towards a machine with a spinning wheel (a lathe?) while another inspects a piece of metal in the background. Pieces of flared metal are on the work bench at the bottom of the frame (negative 18 of 25).
Workers in a woodshop at Albina Engine & Machine Works in Portland. Several men are standing around a workbench using a saw and plane on pieces of wood. Other man, on the right side of the frame, leans again another work bench while watching the other group. Stacks of wood can be seen along the far wall (negative 21 of 25).
War industry workers at Albina Engine & Machine Works in Portland, seated at tables in a dining room. Several men are have their heads turned towards the camera (negative 4 of 25).
Two guards on horseback at Oregon Shipbuilding Corporation in Portland. They’re on a paved road next to a large ship, with two men at the front. Several metal structures over the road appear to hold cranes (negative 9 of 9).
Suzanne Burce (later known as actress Jane Powell), breaking a bottle on the hull of the U.S.S. Peter Skene Ogden at its lunching from the Oregon Shipbuilding Corporation in Portland. Glass is flying from the bottle, while is wrapped with ribbon. Burce is wearing an “Oregon V Girl” uniform (negative 3 of 5).
Four women, some wearing handkerchiefs and hard hats, using scrapers on a metal structure. Several of the women are kneeling under the metal, while one is standing (negative 6 of 6).
A worker stands on a wooden deck, at Commercial Iron Works in Portland, adjusting a knob on a set of tanks. Lengths of hose appear to be attached to the tanks and a railing (negative 33 of 37).
Photograph looking upward, showing a work overalls holding a curved metal tool. He is looking at a large piece of metal, which is likely part of a ship (negative 1 of 12).
Two men stand on top of a large ship turbine. On the ground, another man looks upward, while standing next to a wooden scaffold. Behind the men is a pile of debris. The Willamette River, an industrial building with a smokestack, and trees can be seen in the background.
Photograph showing two women, likely Mrs. Ernest Haycox (sponsor) and Mary Ann Haycox at the launching of a submarine chaser ship built by Albina Engine & Machine Works in Portland. They are both holding bouquets of flowers and standing in front of a ship launching bay on the Willamette River (negative 1 of 3).
People working in an office at Albina Engine & Machine Works in Portland. Two wooden desks are pushed together, holding stacks of paper cards and what appear to be small punch machines? (negative 10 of 25).
Office workers at Albina Engine & Machine Works in Portland. One woman is seated at a desk behind a typewriter, while other women are standing around her and smiling. One woman is sitting on a desk and looking down at pieces of paper (negative 11 of 25).
The interior of a shop building at Albina Engine & Machine Works in Portland. Pieces of wood or metal litter the ground, and workers can be seen at the far end of the building. Braces can be seen along the high ceiling (negative 14 of 25).
War industry workers lining up at Albina Engine & Machine Works in Portland. One man is wearing a gun holstered on his hip, while others can be seen standing around a metal fence (negative 23 of 25).
Women war workers at Albina Engine & Machine Works in Portland. A young man in a Navy uniform is standing at either end of the group (negative 8 of 25).
Workers at Albina Engine & Machine Works in Portland standing in a group and holding what is likely an issue of the Albina Subchaser publication. Many of the men are holding lunchboxes (negative 12 of 25).