Molly Rosner
1 month, 2 weeks ago
V-Mail Advertisement, George Marshall Foundation
My name is Molly Rosner. I am a doctoral student in American Studies at Rutgers University. I am guest writing for the Brooklyn Navy Yard blog this month. This is the third in a series of posts that highlight the collection at Brooklyn Navy Yard Center at BLDG92 in honor of women’s history month. I encourage you to take a trip there to learn more about the many roles women have played during wartime.
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Now at BLDG 92
Molly Rosner
1 month, 3 weeks ago
V-Mail Advertisement, Smithsonian Museum of American History
My name is Molly Rosner and I am a doctoral student in American Studies at Rutgers University. I am guest writing for the Brooklyn Navy Yard blog this month. This is the second of three posts that highlight the collection at Brooklyn Navy Yard Center at BLDG92 in honor of women’s history month. I encourage you to take a trip there to learn more about the many roles women have played during wartime.
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Now at BLDG 92
Molly Rosner
2 months ago
(Image source (detail): Hiller, Lejaren A. Be with him at every mail call : V-mail is private, reliable, patriotic. [Washington, D.C.]. UNT Digital Library)
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From the Archives
Meredith Wisner
9 months, 2 weeks ago
Drafting Room, Building 5, August 1, 1940
This photo is one of my favorites. Depicted is the Yard’s drafting department hunched over their desks busily insuring my future job security. The film’s extended exposure captures their movements – a happy accident that gives the photo an urgency felt across the whole Yard at this time. Taken on August 1st 1940, this image tells the human scale story of the US Navy hurrying to modernizing its infrastructure for its eventual entry in WWII. What was the remainder of all this activity? The answer is tens of thousands of maps and plans that detail the Yard’s largest expansion - a weighty bulk of a collection that I currently manage.
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