John Murphy holding a water barrel

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Digital Object Identifier: 363-02752
Title: John Murphy holding a water barrel
Description: Original caption: "'Ooops, not much water left.' John Murphy holds the water barrel, and old 55-gallon fuel drum - as one of his younger and smaller fellow workers 'gets to the bottom of things'. Water for the market project was carted by shoulder - Vietnamese style - by elderly women from a well half-a-mile away. Vietnamese construction methods were at first a bit strange to the American Seabees. Mixing concrete for instance, is done on the ground, at the spot where it will be used. No power mixer was used, only a wooden hoe, feet, and hands - the results are surprisingly good." Vietnamese workers pouring concrete in a build site. There appears to be an American soldier and a Vietnamese child also working.
Date: 1967
Subject: Vietnam War, 1961-1975; United States. Navy. Seabees; Construction; Villages--Vietnam; Construction workers; Sailors; Women; Children
Location: South Vietnam
Coordinates: 10.8231; 106.6297
Size: 15 x 22 cm
Container: B146, F3
Format: black-and-white prints (photographs)
Collection Number: MS 363
Collection Title: Beverly Deepe Keever, Journalism Papers
Creator: United States. Navy. Seabees
Collector: Keever, Beverly Deepe
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Publisher: Archives & Special Collections
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