Keywords: Lot 2073-5: Manpower: African-American Navy Yard Workers. In a sea of silk, this woman worker is making parachutes for America’s paratroopers. She is one of many African-Americans at a large eastern shipyard (Naval Aircraft Factory, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), May 1942. Office of War Information Photograph. Courtesy of the Library of Congress. (2016/05/12). Lot 2073-5: Manpower: African-American Navy Yard Workers. In a sea of silk, this woman worker is making parachutes for America’s paratroopers. She is one of many African-Americans at a large eastern shipyard (Naval Aircraft Factory, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), May 1942. Office of War Information Photograph. Courtesy of the Library of Congress. (2016/05/12). |