This oral history interview with Reva E. Baker was conducted by Sandy Polishuk at Baker’s home in Lake Oswego, Oregon, on April 24, 1981. The audio recording is incomplete; Tape 1 of the interview was not included in the donation of this collection to the Oregon Historical Society. In this interview, Baker discusses her experience as a welder at the Oregon Shipbuilding Corporation in Portland, Oregon, during World War II. She looks through her scrapbook and talks about the newspaper clippings, photographs, and letters in it. She describes her job duties, discusses the ship construction process, and talks about celebrity visits to the shipyards. She discusses the dangers of the job. She also shares her memories of participating in a welding contest. She shares her thoughts about the women’s liberation movement. She talks about her life after the end of the war, including her career with a telephone company, and about her family.