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Baltimore, Maryland. Building the SS Frederick Douglass. More than 6,000 Negro shipyard workers are employed at the Bethlehem-Fairfield shipyards, where the Liberty ship is being rushed to completion. The noted orator and abolitionist leader worked as a ship caulker in the vicinity of this yard before he escaped from slavery. Electric welders Walter Norman and Louis Grisanti on stern of ship

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  1. Baltimore
  2. Maryland
  3. Nitrate Negatives
  4. United States

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