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Kaiser Company, Inc. (Vancouver, Wash.)

 Organization

Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

Charles P. Harman family papers

 Collection
Identifier: Coll714
Abstract

Photographs, publications, and ephemera relating to Charles P. Harman, Jr. (1908-1986) and Harlay Harman (1948-2001). Charles P. Harman, Jr. was an engineer who worked for the Kaiser Company at the Swan Island shipyard and the Detroit Dam; Harlay Harman was his nephew.

Dates: 1936-1980; Majority of material found within 1942-1951

Northwest Women's History Project records and interviews

 Collection
Identifier: Coll 883
Abstract

Records of the Northwest Women's History Project, primarily concerning its interviews with women who worked in shipyards in Portland, Oregon, and Vancouver, Washington, during World War II, and audio recordings of the interviews. The Northwest Women's History Project was founded in 1978, and in the early 1980s made a presentation based on interviews with women who had been shipyard workers in World War II, titled, "Good Work, Sister!"

Dates: 1943-2021; Majority of material found within 1978-1981

Photographs of the launching of the U.S.S. Alazon Bay

 Collection
Identifier: Org. Lot 1059
Abstract

Photographs of the launching of the escort carrier CVE-55 USS Alazon Bay (later the USS Casablanca), at the Kaiser shipyards, Vancouver, Washington. Includes images of Eleanor Roosevelt at festivities and christening the ship, of Henry Kaiser, and of Josephine Hilda Schmid Coffin, governess to the Kaiser family.

Dates: 1943 April 5

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Subject
photographs 2
Dams -- Oregon -- Detroit 1
Oral Histories 1
Shipbuilding -- Washington (State) -- Vancouver -- Photographs 1
Shipbuilding industry -- Oregon -- Portland 1