DescriptionBlack-and-white photo of men working on deck gun mounts for a merchantman ship at Todd Shipyards, Hoboken, November 26, 1941. 7" x 9" wide print. Photograph taken by Acme Newspictures, New York (credit inkstamp as "Acme Photo" on reverse.) Also on reverse: mimeographed caption; editorial markup; dated file inkstamp: Reference Dept. 2 26 42 N.E.A. [Newspaper Editors Association.] The description of the scene does not place it at Todd Shipyards, but a drydock in the background numbered "9" would place it there. (Bethlehem Steel Shipyard, the other possible location for such work did not have that many drydocks at this time.) World War II had been underway in Europe since 1939 and the United States entry into it was imminent as the attack on Pearl Harbor was less than two weeks away. ==== Text on reverse: 628845 . . . New York Bureau GUN MOUNTS FOR U.S. MERCHANTMEN. HOBOKEN, N.J. -- Workmen are shown at work on gun mounts on a Hoboken pier, where one of the first of the American ships to be armed under the revised Neutrality Act was equiped today with a deck gun. Credit line (Acme) 11-26-41 (SA) NY CHI ==== ==== ---- war / military / enemy action / shipping / U.S. Navy / artillery / armaments / defense / liberty