Mrs. Jessie Matthews Vann (center) holding a bouquet of flowers and flanked by C.C. Spaulding (left), president of the North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company, and Dr. Emmett J. Scott (right), of the Sun Shipbuilding Company, at the launching of Liberty ship SS Robert L. Vann
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Smith, Roger
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Caption on back: "A part of the group of almost a hundred friends and associates of the late Robert L. Vann, noted lawyer and publicist, who attended the launching of liberty ship named in his honor at Portland, Maine, yard of New England Shipbuilding Company on October 10; In the foreground are: C. C. Spaulding, President of the North Carolina Insurance Mutual Life Company, who was the principal speaker at the launching; Mrs. Jessie Matthews Vann, widow of the publisher; Dr. Emmett J. Scott the Sun Shipbuilding Company; and Mrs. Daisy Lampkin, Vice-President of the Pittsburgh Courier Publishing Company.
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- African American Businesspeople
- African American Soldiers
- African American Women
- African Americans
- Armed Forces
- Lampkin, Daisy E. (Daisy Elizabeth), 1882 1965
- Launchings
- Liberty Ships
- Portland (Me.)
- Scott, Emmett J. (Emmett Jay), 1873 1957
- Spaulding, C. C. (Charles Clinton), 1874 1952
- United States
- Women
- World War, 1939 1945