Groton Iron Works, Noank, looking southwest

Metadata

Handle

http://hdl.handle.net/11134/70002:804

Persons

Creator (cre): Tingley, George E., 1864-1958

Title

Groton Iron Works, Noank, looking southwest

Supplied	yes

Origin Information

Date Created	1917

Parent Item

Mystic Seaport Museum

Connecticut History Illustrated

Resource Type

Still image

Digital Origin

reformatted digital

Description

View of the Groton Iron Works yard, Noank. View is looking southwest toward Fishers Island Sound. The Morgan Point lighthouse can be seen in the left background. Stacks of lumber and planks can be seen in the shipyard. Workers are visible in the center and to the right. The activity is identified as the beginning of construction of a new vessel. Handwritten in upper left: "Sept - 24 - 1917".

Genre

Subject

Geographic Subject

Morgan Point (New London County, Conn.)

Extent

Source extent: 1 photograph : platinum print ; 7 1/4 x 9 1/4 in.

Held By

Mystic Seaport Museum

Use and Reproduction

Note

Note Type	local
Note	theme: Infrastructure

Note Type	local
Note	theme: Livelihood

Note

Title supplied by cataloger. Groton Iron Works had its main yard on the Thames in Groton and a second yard on the site of the former Palmer shipyard in Noank. It built a number of iron and wood-hulled vessels during and after World War I, including Emergency Fleet Corporation vessels. This corporation was formed ten days after the United States entered World War I in 1917. It was commissioned to build, equip, maintain and operate merchant vessels.The Groton Iron Works Noank yard ceased production in 1919. The Groton yard continued until 1928. Embossed in lower left: "Tingley/MYSTIC, CONN." George E. Tingley was a noted Mystic area photographer. In his early career, he was an assistant and later sometime partner of Everett A. Scholfield. After 1894 he worked independently.

Local Identifier

Accession number: 1974.1037.3

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Groton Iron Works, Noank, looking southwest

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