Shipyard Volunteers Button
Object Details
- Description
- A push to recruit 250,000 additional shipyard workers for the Hog Island shipyard in early 1918 led the Emergency Fleet Corporation to create the “U.S. Shipyard Volunteers.” Men who signed up to work in the yards were exempted from the military draft.
- In May 1918, shortly after the initiative began, New York led the drive with more than 81,800 volunteers, followed by Illinois and Massachusetts.
- Credit Line
- U.S. Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corp
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
- date made
- ca 1919
- ID Number
- TR.63540.02
- accession number
- 63540
- catalog number
- 308554
- Object Name
- button
- Physical Description
- copper alloy (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 15/16 in x 1 1/4 in x 1/4 in; 2.38125 cm x 3.175 cm x .635 cm
- Related Publication
- On the Water online exhibition
- Related Web Publication
- http://americanhistory.si.edu/onthewater
- See more items in
- Work and Industry: Maritime
- Military
- Work
- Engineering, Building, and Architecture
- Transportation
- Exhibition
- On the Water
- Exhibition Location
- National Museum of American History
- Subject
- Fishing
- related event
- The Emergence of Modern America
- Record ID
- nmah_1343727
