1920 York Ship News New York Shipbuilding Camden NJ Employee Paper Vol II No 8
Today we have something very special and scarcely found; an antique copy of York Ship News employee publication from the New York Shipbuilding Corporation, Camden, New Jersey, dated November 1920, Vol. II, No. 8. This was a shipyard house newspaper/newsletter issued during the early peak years of New York Ship, the major Camden yard founded in 1899 that went on to become one of the most important private shipbuilders in the United States.
This issue is especially cool because the cover and interior focus on current shipyard activity in late 1920, including the trial trip of the S.S. Old North State, destroyer construction and launch activity, shop and yard news, employee/veteran portraits, and period local advertising from Camden/Gloucester City/Philadelphia-area businesses. The Old North State itself was one of the U.S. Shipping Board’s New York Ship-built Design 1095 passenger/cargo vessels, completed in October 1920, which lines up directly with the timing of this issue.
There's some especially fun stuff in here for natives of the Camden/Greater Philly Area. My personal favorite being the community news section, which houses my personal favorite quote of the paper: "Gandy says Camden is a wonderful city, probably greater than Paris. He must have enjoyed his one day's abscence from Pitman."
Approx. Dimensions: 8" x 10 1/2"
*Condition*
It shows obvious age and handling wear consistent with fragile newsprint of the period: edge tears, corner losses, heavy creasing, browning, waviness, staining/water (maybe even a porstman's coffee!) spotting, and general brittleness. Even with the condition issues, it presents well as a scarce piece of shipbuilding history and early 20th-century industrial memorabilia.
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