DescriptionBlack-and-white photo of men on train at Lackawanna Terminal departing for Portland, Oregon, shipyard work, Hoboken, September 26, 1942. 7" x 9" wide print. Photograph taken by Acme Photo, N.Y. (inkstamp on reverse.) Reverse has mimeographed caption pasted to it; file inkstamp: Ref. Dept 10-2-42 N.E.A. [Newspaper Editors Association] Also editor's and printer's mark-up for publication on front and back. Text of mimeographed sheet: 662975 .... New York Bureau OFF TO BUILD SHIPS IN THE WEST HOBOKEN, N.J. -- Hands outstretched in buoyant farewell and V's for Victory, some of the 600 workers who left the East today on the way to the Portland, Ore. shipyards of shipbuilder Henry J. Kaiser are shown as their special train left the terminal in Hoboken. CREDIT LINE (ACME) 9/26/42 (FK) ==== Note in the detail image the retouching of heads for almost 3/4 of those seen. The train was a passenger coach of the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad (known commonly as the Lackawanna as painted on car above the windows.) ---- WWI / World War II /