Finish work on steel cast pieces at Columbia Steel Casting Company
Unidentified men work on finishing several steel cast pieces at Columbia Steel Casting Company. A stern frame casting is being polished in the foreground.
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Finish work on steel-cast components at Columbia Steel Casting Company
An employee using a pneumatic chipping gun inside a stern frame casting at Columbia Steel Casting Company.
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Finish work on steel-cast components at Columbia Steel Casting Company
Two employees using pneumatic tools on castings for a ship's hull at Columbia Steel Casting Company.
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Finish work on steel-cast components at Columbia Steel Casting Company
An employee using a pneumatic chipping gun on a stern frame casting at Columbia Steel Casting Company.
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Forming a mold at Columbia Steel Casting Company
Two employees at Columbia Steel Casting Company finish a larger core before it is set in the mold.
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Frank Budrow guiding a crane in the Columbia Steel Casting Company foundry
Frank Budrow, a Columbia Steel Casting Company employee, guiding a crane hook onto the ladle bail in the foundry. An unidentified man operating the crane is sitting on a platform in the upper left corner of the building.
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Furnace at Columbia Steel Casting Company
Detail view of the door for an arc furnace at Columbia Steel Casting Company.
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Grinding seams on steel-cast components at Columbia Steel Casting Company
An employee using a hand grinder to smooth seams on a steel-cast component at Columbia Steel Casting Company.
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Grinding seams on steel-cast components at Columbia Steel Casting Company
An employee using a swing frame grinder to clean skeg off a ship hull frame casting at Columbia Steel Casting Company.
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Grinding steel-cast components at Columbia Steel Casting Company
An employee using a swing grinder on the inside of a ship stern frame casting at Columbia Steel Casting Company.
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Interior view of a mold at Columbia Steel Casting Company
An interior view of a deep mold with many nails in the bottom to be used as a chill at Columbia Steel Casting Company.
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Interior view of an oven at Columbia Steel Casting Company
An interior view of a heat treat oven via an observation port at Columbia Steel Casting Company.
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Interior view of Columbia Steel Casting Company
Two employees help guide a large, ship's hull casting as it is removed from the mold by a crane at Columbia Steel Casting Company. Note mold half in background with employee riding on top as it’s moved with a crane.
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Interior view of Columbia Steel Casting Company
A large hull casting is being lifted by a crane while below an employee uses a grinder to smooth a propeller at Columbia Steel Casting Company.
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Liberty Ship stern subassemblies
A view of the stern subassemblies for a Liberty Ship showing how the stern frames produced by Columbia Steel Casting Company were welded to the ship’s hull plates.
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Lifting steel-castings with a crane at Columbia Steel Casting Company
An unidentified worker helps guide a large steel-cast component being lifted by a crane at Columbia Steel Casting Company.
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Lifting stern frame castings with a crane at Columbia Steel Casting Company
An employee helps guide a large stern frame casting being lifted by a crane at Columbia Steel Casting Company. Another worker is visible in the crane operator booth at the upper center of the photograph.
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Loading a stern frame casting at Columbia Steel Casting Company
Three employees loading a large, stern frame casting onto a rail cart using a pulley hoist at Columbia Steel Casting Company.
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Making mold cavity inserts at Columbia Steel Casting Company
Two employees make mold cavity inserts ('Cores') at Columbia Steel Casting Company.
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Mold construction at Columbia Steel Casting Company
Four employees use an overhead crane to close the two halves of a ship hull frame casting at Columbia Steel Casting Company.
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Molding hull castings at Columbia Steel Casting Company
Employees at Columbia Steel Casting Company watch as a specialized frame holding a stern frame pattern of ship’s hull casting is removed by overhead crane.
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Mold-making at Columbia Steel Casting Company
An employee working on cores and making pouring cups at Columbia Steel Casting Company.
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Mold-making at Columbia Steel Casting Company
An employee checking cores before they are set in molds at Columbia Steel Casting Company.
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Moving steel-cast components at Columbia Steel Casting Company
Employees guiding a ship hull frame casting on an overhead crane lift at Columbia Steel Casting Company.
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Operating above-ground molding equipment at Columbia Steel Casting Company
Three unidentified workers operate above-ground molding equipment designed by Columbia Steel Casting Company to speed production of large stern frames during World War II.
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Operating above-ground molding equipment at Columbia Steel Casting Company
Three unidentified workers operate above-ground molding equipment designed by Columbia Steel Casting Company to speed production of large stern frames during World War II.
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Packing sand into a casting flask at Columbia Steel Casting Company
Employees use screens for facing the mold cavity for a stern frame while shoveling heap sand and using a specialized frame for drawing the complicated pattern out of the mold at Columbia Steel Casting Company.
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Packing sand into a casting flask at Columbia Steel Casting Company
An employee using a pneumatic rammer to pack sand into a core box at Columbia Steel Casting Company.
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