Hooker's Point shipyard photos, 1942

THIS JUST IN: This is a lot of 10 photographs of a shipyard construction project in Tampa taken by Burgert Brothers. In 1942, America needed Liberty Ships to aid the war effort, and Philadelphia industrialist Matthew McCloskey began construction of a $30 million shipyard at Hooker’s Point in Tampa. The shipyard would employ 6,000 and produce concrete Liberty Ships to transport war materiel. Click on the photographs to enlarge them. This is only part of an extensive collection of Tampa-related ephemera we have acquired. We’ll show you more later.