Oregon Historical Society Research Library
Photographs of the launching of the USS Alazon Bay
Org. Lot 1059
01. cubic feet
1 folder in shared box
1943 April 5
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.
English
Collection is open for research.
Photographs of the launching of the USS Alazon Bay, Org. Lot 1059, Oregon Historical Society Research Library.
Gift of Mary Lowry, June 2011 (Lib. Acc. 27363).
Thirty-six photographs, collected by Josephine Hilda Schmid Coffin, governess to the Kaiser family, 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.
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Kaiser, Henry J., 1882-1967--Photographs
Roosevelt, Eleanor, 1884-1962--Photographs
Alazon Bay (Aircraft carrier)--Photographs
Casablanca (Aircraft carrier)--Photographs
Kaiser Company, Inc. (Vancouver, Wash.)
Shipbuilding--Washington (State)--Vancouver--Photographs
Shipyards--Washington (State)--Vancouver--Photographs
World War, 1939-1945--Washington (State)--Vancouver
Ships and Shipping
Vancouver (Wash.)
photographs