Photograph of the USS Pettit, constructed by the Brown Shipbuilding Company (DE 253), World War II

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Artist/Author: 
Litterst Commercial Photo Co.
Subject: 
Houston Ship Channel
Geographic Area: 
Houston, Texas
Date: 
1943
Archives: 
Woodson Research Center, Fondren Library, Rice University
Archives Website: 
http://library.rice.edu/woodson
Archives email contact: 
woodson@rice.edu
Description: 

Brown and Root founded the Brown Shipbuilding Company in 1942 along the Houston Ship Channel, building ships for the US Navy.