The Snapshots in Time Collection

Sailor Sewing Rating Badge at Shipboard Tailor Station, WWII Era

Sailor Sewing Rating Badge at Shipboard Tailor Station, WWII Era

A sailor stitches a rating badge onto a uniform sleeve at a shipboard tailor station while an officer looks on. Small personal photographs pinned to the bulkhead above -- reminders of home -- accompany the practical, everyday work of keeping a crew's uniforms in order during wartime service. Project: 218482