Shipyard Volunteers Button
date: label: date made
content: ca 1919
notes: label: Description
content: A push to recruit 250,000 additional shipyard workers for the Hog Island shipyard in early 1918 led the Emergency Fleet Corporation to create the “U.S. Shipyard Volunteers.” Men who signed up to work in the yards were exempted from the military draft.
label: Description
content: In May 1918, shortly after the initiative began, New York led the drive with more than 81,800 volunteers, followed by Illinois and Massachusetts.
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: Work
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content: Engineering, Building, and Architecture
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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 Fleet Corp
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: TR.63540.02
label: accession number
content: 63540
label: catalog number
content: 308554
objectType: label: Object Name
content: button
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: copper alloy (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 15/16 in x 1 1/4 in x 1/4 in; 2.38125 cm x 3.175 cm x .635 cm