hardhat

Something odd to the top right of the photo? Can you explain - cheers - Paul

Odd is an understatement! The figure is very static (see left hand) but very translucent, standing between steps, and entirely at the wrong angle (ie, leaning backwards about 30 degrees.) If this were a 'genuine' person moving about in the image they would be blurred, but translucence without movement is impossible and thie effect shown can only be achieved by a double exposure. (I'm a press photographer of 40 years experience).

I've just downloaded this image and magnified it, and things get even stranger. Above the person's head tucked to the right of the escalator is an fuzzy 'phallic' object that doesn't have the same focus qualities of its surrounding objects, so doesn't belong in this image either. A private joke of some sort?

The first in this set of African-Americans and Caucasians working together. In Texas, no less.

stunning photo! thanks for sharing!!

I remember the Shipyards in Beaumont, Texas. Our next door neighbor worked there in the late 1940's. Looking towards the Neches River and Port of Beaumont, you could see the bright flashes of the welding torches working late into the night. In the 1960's, the Shipyard's employed Radiological Technologist's to take Industrial X-rays of ship welds.

I'm confused. The title says workers leaving the Pennsylvania shipyards and that it was taken in Beaumont, Texas. Typo?

I believe that Pennsylvania was from the company name. See www.coltoncompany.com/shipbldg/ussbldrs/wwii/merchantship... for a bit of history

Incredible portrait.