Start of 1st ship, Newark Yards, Photograph shows Mr. John Hunter of the United States Shipping Board, driving a rivet with Mr. Henry R. Sutphen, vice president of the Submarine Boat Corporation standing behind him at the Newark Bay Shipyard, Kearny, New Jersey. The men were attending a ceremony on December 20, 1917 marking the first rivet driven into 'the first standardized structural steel ship ever built.', between ca. 1915 and ca. 1920, Glass negatives, 1 negative: glass

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