2005.23.3

1942-1945
7.5 in WIDE x .5 in DEEP
(19.05 cm WIDE x 1.27 cm DEEP)
Gift of Lawrence Eugene Crooks
2005.23.3


This is a pair of welder's gloves, also known as "leathers" worn by Ira Hubert Crooks, a welding foreman at a Kaiser shipyard in Richmond during World War II. A: Right glove' B: Left glove. The gloves are sueded brown leather, palm re-enforced.

See also items 2005.23.1-2 Mr. Crooks' notebooks, and 2005.23.4 another part of his "leathers."

Used: Ira Hubert Crooks | World War II | Shipyard | Kaiser | Richmond | Welder | Ship building

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