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Items associated with name 'Bethlehem Fairfield Shipyard'
Louise Hopkins Dryden papers
by Dryden, Louise Hopkins (1906 – 2002)
1 box (0.25 linear feet)
The papers of Louise Hopkins Dryden document her experience as the first Somerset County woman to christen a Liberty Ship, the S.S. WILLIAM WELCH, March, 1943. Records include correspondence, photographs, and a booklet that documents the entirety of the Bethlehem Liberty Fleet. Also included are family photographs of Mrs. Dryden from her infancy in 1906 until a year before her death in 2002.
Identifier:
2014.024
Repository:
Local History Archives
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