Building the emergency fleet; a historical narrative of the problems and achievements of the United States shipping board emergency fleet corporation
A documentary account of the U.S. Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corporation's World War I shipbuilding program, written by William Courtney Mattox and published in Cleveland by Penton in 1920 for shipping men, engineers, and government readers. The 44 halftones divide between studio portraits of executives in dark suits and views of steel hulls, launchings, cranes, and crowded shipyard ways, offering designers high-contrast industrial silhouettes, rigging lines, and period corporate portraiture.
