hard hat

c.1942
ca. 1943

Handwritten on negative envelope: "On the way to work (swing shift) Just across the street from Gate of Yard 2."

A Tribute to Mama Howard
Late 20th Early 21st Century

Poster printed with gray, blue, yellow, and pink ink on white paper. The page has an unprinted outer border that frames a wide gray secondary border. An image of a woman in a blue dress is...

adding injury to insult
1978

Poster has central black and white photo of a man in hard hat leaning against a wall that has a sign posted reading "Danger Employees Only". Photo set on a white background. Centered beneath the...

Construction Yes - Destruction No!
1971

Top edge of poster has the text: "March For Peace April 24". Below is a large stylized drawing with a truss crane at top, below the crane the background is red, at the bottom edge of the drawing...

 (Richmond Shipyards, California)
Sep-43
1975

From caption on back of photograph: "Workmen load outsized piece of equipment aboard world plane. Air cargo activity, particularly to the Mideast is boon for Oakland-based airlines." A large...

19-Aug-39

Handwritten on the back, "L to R John Thormaklen, Phillip Pedulla on hull at Moore Shipyard." Photo shows two men wearing overalls, long-sleeved shirts, gloves, and hard hats standing on the hull...

8/29/32

From back of photo: rescue crew descending the Mocho shaft of the Hetch hetchy cave-in. 8/29/32

Twleve men, nine with backs to camera standing in front of large metal and wood...

26-Oct-34

Front of photo: "3913 H.H. Ag. Mitchell Shat "Tunnel Crew" 1-4-34"

Group photo of approximately 45 men in work clothes and wearing hard hats. Most hard hats have lights on them. Forty...

8-Jun-70

Depiction: A large crowd marches down a St. Louis street. Many of them carry flags. All most everyone wears a hard hat. There are three signs for "St. Louis Building Trades Council." Photo...

1970s
Spring 1943

Handwritten on negative envelope: "On the Ferry - Day workers returning to San Francisco from Richmond Spring 1943"

End of Shift 3:30
Sep-43

Filed in contemporary Lange work print folder, with the following inscription: #28 Richmond Shipyards - Wartime (1943) Written on negative envelope: "Sept `43 End of Shift 3:30 Notice, how...

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