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Title: Marian Anderson christens the liberty ship Booker T. Washington
Date Created and/or Issued: 1942
Publication Information: Los Angeles Daily News
Contributing Institution: UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library
Collection: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives
Rights Information: US
Description: Marian Anderson, the great American opera contralto, prepares to christen the Brooker T. Washington.
The Booker T. Washington was the first major oceangoing vessel to be named after an African American. She was built by the California Shipbuilding Corporation on Terminal Island, and launched in 1942.
Type: image
Identifier: ark:/13030/hb0h4nb0ht
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: People
Liberty ships
African American singers
War
Arts
Shipbuilding
Anderson, Marian, 1897-1993
Source: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

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