Launching S.S. Agwiprince, Long Beach, Calif., 1941

25 photographs of the launching of the SS Agwiprince, Long Beach, California, 1941 March 27. "Hull No. 158, Press, Mr. Al Rethe." "Consolidated Steel Corporation, Ltd., Los Angeles, cordially invites you to be present at the launching of the S.S. Agwiprince for United States Maritime Commission and New York and Cuba Mail Steamship Company, Thursday, March the twenty-seventh, Nineteen hundred and forty-one, at eleven o'clock, Long Beach, California, Sponsor Mrs. Edward B. Simmons. Please present this invitation" -- on invitation. "Reproduction rights sold to: 1 #10 Standard Oil 2/[19]42; #10 Dozier Graham Eastman 4/[19]42; 12 Star Engraving 2/[19]45; 10 Pac[ific] Metal 4/[19]45; #10 Nat[iona]l Assoc[iation] of Foremen 8/[19]46; #10 Shell Oil, S[an] F[rancisco] 7/[19]41; #4, 10, 19, 24 Popular Mechanics Mag[azine 8/[19]41; #10 Amer[ican] Inst[itute] of Banking 8/[19]41; #10 - Calif[ornia] Bank 11/[19]41; #10 So[uthern] Calif[ornia] Gas Co[mpany]; #10 Union Oil Company 4/[19]42; #10 #16 Consolidated Steel 4/[19]42; #20 Uat Schools; #10 Famous Dep[artmen]t Store 10/[19]42" -- 2 scraps of envelope.