Capson, Eleanor Beiler
- Object Type
- Oral history
- Object ID
- 14699
- Date
- November 3 2009
- Description
- Eleanor Beiler Capson (1922- ) grew up in Flatbush, Brooklyn. She attended Erasmus Hall High School and graduated from Brooklyn College in 1942, after which she worked for the U.S. Signal Corps at Fort Monmouth. Capson became a teacher and principal in Brooklyn after leaving the Brooklyn Navy Yard. After retiring she moved to Riverdale in the Bronx. In her interview, Capson explains her work in the materials testing laboratory at the Yard, where she tested the strength of materials used on ships and how to insulate wires used on the ships so they did not mold. She worked at the Yard from January to September of 1943 and was paid a yearly wage, rather than by the hour.
- Related Collection
- Brooklyn Navy Yard Oral History Project
- Subjects
- Labor and Yard Workers, Women
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