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Melva Lillian Cole and unidentified woman sitting on bench and holding photographs
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- 1943-01-08 (Creation)
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Photograph; safety film; 3.125 x 4.125 in
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Three-quarters portrait of two women sitting on a bench and facing front. The woman at left is unidentified; the woman at right is Melva Lillian Cole of Fargo, North Dakota. Both women are holding photographs. The top photograph in Cole’s hand appears to be a print of image No. 375A0448 or a very similar photograph. This picture was probably taken on January 8, 1943, when Cole christened a submarine chaser known as the Hell Hornet during a launching ceremony at the Albina Engine & Machine Works shipyard in Portland. The Oregon Journal published a story about the launching and a related photograph, image No. 375A0441, on Page 10 of its final edition on January 9, 1943. The story, headlined “Wife of Hero Launches Subchaser,” reported that Cole was the widow of a U. S. Navy serviceman, Wilson Burnett Cole, who had been killed in an attack by a German submarine off Cape Hatteras in June 1942. Image note: The number 34 is written on the negative and is visible in the lower right corner of the image. The text “Albina shipbuilding / Launching / 1/8/43” is written on the negative sleeve. Also see image Nos. 375A0434, 375A0435, 375A0436, 375A0438, 375A0439, 375A0440, 375A0441, 375A0442, 375A0443, 375A0444, 375A0445, 375A0446, 375A0447, 375A0448, 375A0449, 375A0450, and 375A0451.
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Oregon Journal Negative Collection; Org. Lot 1368; Box 375; 375A0437
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- Oregon Journal (Firm) (Publisher)