A ship propeller at Columbia Steel Casting Company
Two unidentified workers guide a ship's propeller on a crane at Columbia Steel Casting Company. Another worker is visible operating the crane from a booth in the upper portion of the photograph.
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Building a mold at Columbia Steel Casting Company
A molder using a trowel to fine tune a large ship hull casting before the cores are set at Columbia Steel Casting Company.
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Checking a mold at Columbia Steel Casting Company
Employees at Columbia Steel Casting Company check a mold after the pattern has been pulled.
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Chiseling steel-cast components at Columbia Steel Casting Company
An employee using a pneumatic chipping gun on a ship hull frame casting at Columbia Steel Casting Company.
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Cleaning a mold at Columbia Steel Casting Company
A molder blows off parting compound (white powder) from a mold before the pattern is pulled from the sand at Columbia Steel Casting Company.
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Cleaning a steel-cast component at Columbia Steel Casting Company
An employee using a swing frame grinder on a large casting at Columbia Steel Casting Company.
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Cleaning a steel-cast component at Columbia Steel Casting Company
An employee using a chipping gun to excavate a casting defect to prepare for a weld repair at Columbia Steel Casting Company.
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Cleaning and finish grinding a steel propeller at Columbia Steel Casting Company
Employees at Columbia Steel Casting Company cleaning a casting with pneumatic chipping guns while two welders fill in flaws in a propeller casting.
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Cleaning room at Columbia Steel Casting Company
An employee using a swing frame grinder on a stern frame casting in the cleaning room at the Columbia Steel Casting Company foundry. Caption from bottom of negative reads, “Center section in cleaning room. Pouring weight 50,000 pounds.”
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Cleaning skeg from castings at Columbia Steel Casting Company
An employee using an electric swing frame grinder to clean skeg off a ship frame casting at Columbia Steel Casting Company. The caption at the bottom of the image reads, “Skeg being cleaned.”
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Cleaning skeg from castings at Columbia Steel Casting Company
An employee uses a prybar to remove the slag after an acetylene cutting torch has cut the riser steel-cast component at Columbia Steel Casting Company.
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Cleaning skeg from castings at Columbia Steel Casting Company
Two employees work on cleaning a casting at Columbia Steel Casting Company. One employee uses a cutting torch to remove rigging, and another uses a bar to hand chip off sand.
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Cleaning steel-cast components at Columbia Steel Casting Company
Employees operating swing grinders on a ship hull cast at Columbia Steel Casting Company.
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Cleaning steel-cast components at Columbia Steel Casting Company
An employee using a swing grinder on a stern frame casting at Columbia Steel Casting company.
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Cleaning steel-cast components at Columbia Steel Casting Company
Employees using swing grinders, chipping guns, and pneumatic chisels on steel-cast components at Columbia Steel Casting Company.
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Cleaning steel-cast components at Columbia Steel Casting Company
Two employees work on stern frame of ship at Columbia Steel Casting Company. One employee uses a cutting torch to remove a riser and one uses a pneumatic chipping gun.
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Cleaning steel-cast components at Columbia Steel Casting Company
Employees using pneumatic chipping guns to clean a stern frame casting at Columbia Steel Casting Company.
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Cleaning steel-cast components at Columbia Steel Casting Company
Two employees cleaning steel-cast components with an electric swing grinder and a pneumatic chipping gun at Columbia Steel Casting company.
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Constructing a casting flask at Columbia Steel Casting Company
Employees at Columbia Steel Casting Company working to close a mold by placing the cope (top half of the mold) onto the drag (bottom half) of the mold.
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Constructing a casting flasks at Columbia Steel Casting Company
An employee on a crane seat uses a slinger to fill a larger mold box with sand at Columbia Steel Casting Company.
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Crane ladle at Columbia Steel Casting Company
An employee steadies a crane ladle as it is filled with steel from an arc furnace at Columbia Steel Casting Company.
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Crane ladle at Columbia Steel Casting Company
An employee rakes the slag off the top of the molten steel in a crane ladle at Columbia Steel Casting Company.
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Crane ladle at Columbia Steel Casting Company
An employee pouring steel into a crane ladle at Columbia Steel Casting Company.
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Employees at Columbia Steel Casting Company
Two employees using grinders and chisels on a bullion pot casting at Columbia Steel Casting Company.
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Filling flasks at Columbia Steel Casting Company
Employees using an open cabbed overhead crane ladle to pour a mold at Columbia Steel Casting Company.
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Filling molds at Columbia Steel Casting Company
Four employees using a lip pour ladle to pour a large mold at Columbia Steel Casting Company.
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Finish work on a steel propeller at Columbia Steel Casting Company
An employee grinds flaws out of a steel propeller casting while two other men observe at Columbia Steel Casting Company.
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Finish work on a stern frame casting at Columbia Steel Casting Company
Four employees use pneumatic chipping guns to clean a stern frame casting at Columbia Steel Casting Company.
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