Red Alexander oral history
Scope and Contents
Sound recording of interview with Robert "Red" Alexander conducted by Harvey Schwartz. Describes boat building in military, World War II; master boat builder for Pacific Dry Dock/Crowley Maritime in East Bay, 1950-1979; traces great changes in shipbuilding over time; master model ship builder whose replicas are widely known in maritime circles.
Dates
- 1997 March 12
Access
Collection is open for research.
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Biography
Member, Shipwrights Local 1149 and highly skilled boat builder by 1941.
Extent
5 audio cassettes
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
Sound recording of interview with Robert "Red" Alexander conducted by Harvey Schwartz. Describes boat building in military, World War II; master boat builder for Pacific Dry Dock/Crowley Maritime in East Bay, 1950-1979; traces great changes in shipbuilding over time; master model ship builder whose replicas are widely known in maritime circles.
Acquisition Information
Interview conducted by Harvey Schwartz, 1997.
- Alexander, Robert (Interviewee)
- Audiocassettes.
- Oral histories.
- Schwartz, Harvey (Interviewer)
- Shipbuilding -- California -- San Francisco Bay Area -- History.
- Shipbuilding industry--Employees--Labor unions--California.
- Shipwrights, Joiners and Boat Builders. Local 1149 (San Francisco and Oakland, Calif.)
- Shipwrights--California--San Francisco Bay Area--Interviews.
- Shipyards -- California -- San Francisco Bay Area -- History.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- California -- San Francisco Bay Area.
- Title
- Finding aid to the Red Alexander oral history
- Author
- Finding aid created by Labor Archives and Research Center staff.
- Date
- 2017
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
Repository Details
Part of the Labor Archives and Research Center Repository
San Francisco State University
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