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[Female Cramp's Shipyard trainee]
![[Female Cramp's Shipyard trainee]. Image provided by Historical Society of Pennsylvania](https://www.philaplace.org/media/philaplace/images/4/5/42780_ca_object_representations_media_4503_hsp4.jpg "[Female Cramp's Shipyard trainee]. Image provided by Historical Society of Pennsylvania")
- Neighborhood
- Fishtown/Kensington
- Related Story
- Cramp Shipyard — “A Community Organization and a Community Institution”
- Street Address
- Richmond St. and Norris St.
- Date Created
- March 8 1943
- Description
- Mrs. Marie McCloskey, who here is acetylene-burning test plates in the apprenticeship school at Cramp's shipyard, is one of 60 trainees who learn their job in two to four weeks. School is on 24 hours a day. Mrs. McCloskey has two children, 7 and 9, but she felt it was her duty to take up some of of war work.
- Contributing Institution
- Historical Society of Pennsylvania
- Collection
- Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Philadelphia Record Photograph Collection
- Topics
- Landscape & Architecture, Public & Social Life, Work
- This Item Is Unavailable For Purchase
