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Bow-side view of Liberty ship SS Frederick Douglass sliding down the ways on the day of its launching

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@ Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Photographs and Prints Division. The New York Public Library

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Caption on back: "Twenty-nine days after the keel was slid, the SS Frederick Douglass, third liberty ship named for a Negro, was launched in Baltimore, Md., on May 23, in the presence of more than 20,000 shipyard workers and friends; The Frederick Douglass is shown sliding down the ways.
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Text
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Photographs Gelatin Silver Prints
Created Date:
1943 05 22
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Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Photographs and Prints Division. The New York Public Library

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The New York Public Library