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Title: [Photograph of World War II metal banners]
Creator: Cheney, Rose
Date Created and/or Issued: 2007 May 21
Publication Information: Richmond Public Library
Contributing Institution: Richmond Public Library
Collection: Richmond Local History Photograph Collection
Rights Information: Public domain
Material in the public domain. No restrictions on use.
Description: Photograph shows metal cut-out banners of women welders and riveters on lamp-posts along Macdonald Avenue near San Pablo Avenue. The powder-coated aluminum banners were made by Bay Area artist, Horace Washington. The images were based on actual photographs taken at the Kaiser shipyards during World War II. The artist used photos as his initial shapes for the figures, which were then water-jet cut, painted, and assembled like parts of a paper doll.
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph : col. ; 21 x 28 cm.
Identifier: http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/kt7d5nd5df
cabri_251
Language: English
Subject: Art--California--Richmond
Banners--California--Richmond
Public art--California--Richmond
War Work--California--Richmond
World War, 1939-1945--California--Richmond
Place: Macdonald Avenue (Richmond, Calif.)
Richmond (Calif.)
San Pablo Avenue (Calif.)

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