Filling flasks at Columbia Steel Casting Company
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- 1944-08
Employees using an open cabbed overhead crane ladle to pour a mold at Columbia Steel Casting Company.
Atkeson, Ray
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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.
Atkeson, Ray
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.
Atkeson, Ray
Pouring steel in the Columbia Steel Casting Company foundry
An employee at Columbia Steel Casting Company pours steel into a mold from a lip pour ladle while a second employee uses a rake to hold back floating slag.
Atkeson, Ray
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.
Atkeson, Ray
Pouring steel in the Columbia Steel Casting Company foundry
Two employees at Columbia Steel Casting Company pour steel into opposite ends of a large mold from two ladles simultaneously ('Double Pour') for a steel cast component.
Atkeson, Ray
Pouring steel in the Columbia Steel Casting Company foundry
Workers pouring steel from the ladle into molds in the Columbia Steel Casting Company foundry. Pictured to the left of the ladle is Lee Beavers. In the foreground of the picture, D. C. Gore, furnace department foreman, is preparing to put riser compound on the riser top once pouring is complete.
Atkeson, Ray
Worker at Columbia Steel Casting Company
An employee adds material into an arc furnace at Columbia Steel Casting Company.
Atkeson, Ray
Welder at Columbia Steel Casting Company
An employee uses an acetylene torch track burner to remove a riser from a ship frame casting at Columbia Steel Casting Company.
Atkeson, Ray
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.”
Atkeson, Ray
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.
Atkeson, Ray
Making mold cavity inserts at Columbia Steel Casting Company
Two employees make mold cavity inserts ('Cores') at Columbia Steel Casting Company.
Atkeson, Ray
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.
Atkeson, Ray
Workers at Columbia Steel Casting Company
An employee using a pneumatic chipping gun to clean out an internal cavity in a ship hull casting at Columbia Steel Casting Company.
Atkeson, Ray
Welding a stern frame casting at Columbia Steel Casting Company
An employee welding a joint on a stern frame casting at Columbia Steel Casting Company. Several other employees are visible working on other pieces in the background.
Atkeson, Ray
Welder at Columbia Steel Casting Company
An employee using an acetylene torch track burner to remove a riser on a steel-cast component at Columbia Steel Casting Company.
Atkeson, Ray
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.
Atkeson, Ray
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.
Atkeson, Ray
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.
Atkeson, Ray
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.
Atkeson, Ray
Workers at Columbia Steel Casting Company
Three employees pulling a pattern from a deep mold at Columbia Steel Casting Company.
Atkeson, Ray
Worker at Columbia Steel Casting Company
An employee using a small electric grinder on a cast pin at Columbia Steel Casting Company.
Atkeson, Ray
Checking a mold at Columbia Steel Casting Company
Employees at Columbia Steel Casting Company check a mold after the pattern has been pulled.
Atkeson, Ray
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.
Atkeson, Ray
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.
Atkeson, Ray
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.
Atkeson, Ray
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.
Atkeson, Ray
Workers at Columbia Steel Casting Company
Two employees at Columbia Steel Casting Company place rebar on large cores for rebar to act as an inserted chill.
Atkeson, Ray
Employees at Columbia Steel Casting Company
Two employees using grinders and chisels on a bullion pot casting at Columbia Steel Casting Company.
Atkeson, Ray