Badge: Shipbuilding War Service
date: label: date made
content: 1918-1919
notes: label: Description
content: The United States entered World War I in April 1917. Within days, the federal government created the Emergency Fleet Corporation (EFC) to construct a fleet of merchant ships. The EFC hired the American International Shipbuilding Corporation to build and operate the largest shipyard in the world: Hog Island, near Philadelphia.
label: Description
content: This badge identified the wearer as a member of the World War I Hog Island shipbuilding team.
topic: label: Subject
content: Fishing
label: related event
content: The Emergence of Modern America
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content: Work and Industry: Maritime
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content: Military
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content: Industry & Manufacturing
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content: Transportation
label: Exhibition
content: On the Water
label: Exhibition Location
content: National Museum of American History
publisher: label: Related Publication
content: National Museum of American History. On the Water exhibition website
label: Related Web Publication
content: http://americanhistory.si.edu/onthewater
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: U. S. Shipping Board Emergency Corp.
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2009.0157.01
label: accession number
content: 2009.0157
label: catalog number
content: 2009.0157.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: badge
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: copper alloy (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 2 1/4 in x 1 5/8 in x 1/4 in; 5.715 cm x 4.1275 cm x .635 cm