Presentation Model, Typical Wartime Freighter
date: label: Date made
content: 1919
name: label: recipient
content: Piez, Charles
label: presenter
content: Association of Northwestern Shipbuilders
label: referenced
content: Emergency Fleet Corporation
label: maker
content: Zapffe, Carl
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 unusual ship model of a standard Emergency Fleet Corporation Type A freighter was made of solid silver in 1919 by the silversmith Carl Zapffe, Inc. of Seattle, Washington for the Association of Northwestern Shipbuilders (ANS).
label: Description
content: In gratitude for the nation’s massive investment in American shipbuilding during World War I, the ANS presented it to outgoing Emergency Fleet Corporation Director-General Charles Piez on 30 April 1919. The model was donated to the Smithsonian in 1976 by the nephew of the original recipient.
place: label: Place Made
content: United States: Washington, Seattle
topic: label: Subject
content: Fishing
label: related event
content: The Emergence of Modern America
setName: label: See more items in
content: Work and Industry: Maritime
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content: Military
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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: Gift of Catherine M. and Capt. Raymond M. Kotrla, USN (Ret.)
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: TR.335462
label: catalog number
content: 335462
label: accession number
content: 321772
label: accession number
content: 1976.321772
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Ship, Freighter
label: Object Name
content: ship model, freighter
label: Object Name
content: model, ship
label: Other Terms
content: Ship, Freighter; Ship; Maritime; Freighter
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: silver (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: wood (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: enamel (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 26 in; x 66.04 cm