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[StartQuote] Glad to be of service David. The hellcat was an experimental boat by the way so what you see... Garth, search the link I posted for "torpedo boat" and you can find out bibliographic information about the images such as year taken. For example, from the bow shot with the sign "keel laid...": *********************** Production. Motor torpedo boats (wooden). Planking a new seventy-eight-foot motor torpedo boat at a large Southern shipyard. These speedy wooden vessels are built of prefabricated parts and sections under roof. When the hull is ready for launching and fitting it is removed from the plant to nearby water. Higgins Industries. Hollem, Howard R., photographer. CREATED/PUBLISHED 1942 July. NOTES Title and other information from caption card. Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. SUBJECTS Safety film negatives. United States. RELATED NAMES United States. Office of War Information. MEDIUM 1 negative : safety ; 5 x 7 inches or smaller. CALL NUMBER LC-USE6- D-006857 REPRODUCTION NUMBER LC-USE6-D-006857 DLC (b&w film neg.) PART OF Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information Photograph Collection (Library of Congress) REPOSITORY Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division Washington, DC 20540 DIGITAL ID (intermediary roll film) fsa 8b09530 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/fsa.8b09530 ************************ On the search results page, clicking "gallery view" will bring up thumbnails. On the thumbnail page, clicking "Display Images with Neighboring Call Numbers" may show similar images. [EndQuote]
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