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Workers at Columbia Steel Casting Company

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1944-08

Part of Photo Art Commercial Studio photographs

Two molders at Columbia Steel Casting Company start to pull a pattern from a deep mold.

Atkeson, Ray

Interior view of an oven at Columbia Steel Casting Company

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1944-08

Part of Photo Art Commercial Studio photographs

An interior view of a heat treat oven via an observation port at Columbia Steel Casting Company.

Atkeson, Ray

Workers at Columbia Steel Casting Company

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1944-08

Part of Photo Art Commercial Studio photographs

Six employees using a rail car to move cores into a core oven for baking at Columbia Steel Casting Company.

Atkeson, Ray

Workers at Columbia Steel Casting Company

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1944-08

Part of Photo Art Commercial Studio photographs

Three employees using an overhead crane to pull a wooden pattern from a mold at Columbia Steel Casting Company.

Atkeson, Ray

Workers at Columbia Steel Casting Company

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1944-08

Part of Photo Art Commercial Studio photographs

Four employees using a crane to set cores into a mold cavity at Columbia Steel Casting Company.

Atkeson, Ray

Worker at Columbia Steel Casting Company

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1944-08

Part of Photo Art Commercial Studio photographs

An employee uses a pneumatic chipping gun to clean a casting at Columbia Steel Casting Company.

Atkeson, Ray

Mold-making at Columbia Steel Casting Company

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1944-08

Part of Photo Art Commercial Studio photographs

An employee working on cores and making pouring cups at Columbia Steel Casting Company.

Atkeson, Ray

Liberty Ship stern subassemblies

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1944-08

Part of Photo Art Commercial Studio photographs

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.

Atkeson, Ray

Chiseling steel-cast components at Columbia Steel Casting Company

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1944-08

Part of Photo Art Commercial Studio photographs

An employee using a pneumatic chipping gun on a ship hull frame casting at Columbia Steel Casting Company.

Atkeson, Ray

Welder at Columbia Steel Casting Company

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1944-08

Part of Photo Art Commercial Studio photographs

An employee using an acetylene torch on a track burner to remove a riser at Columbia Steel Casting Company.

Atkeson, Ray

Cleaning steel-cast components at Columbia Steel Casting Company

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1944-08

Part of Photo Art Commercial Studio photographs

An employee using a swing grinder on a stern frame casting at Columbia Steel Casting company.

Atkeson, Ray

Cleaning steel-cast components at Columbia Steel Casting Company

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1944-08

Part of Photo Art Commercial Studio photographs

Employees using swing grinders, chipping guns, and pneumatic chisels on steel-cast components at Columbia Steel Casting Company.

Atkeson, Ray

Finish work on a stern frame casting at Columbia Steel Casting Company

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1944-08

Part of Photo Art Commercial Studio photographs

Four employees use pneumatic chipping guns to clean a stern frame casting at Columbia Steel Casting Company.

Atkeson, Ray

Packing sand into a casting flask at Columbia Steel Casting Company

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1944-08

Part of Photo Art Commercial Studio photographs

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.

Atkeson, Ray

Operating above-ground molding equipment at Columbia Steel Casting Company

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1944-08

Part of Photo Art Commercial Studio photographs

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.

Atkeson, Ray

Welder at Columbia Steel Casting Company

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1944-08

Part of Photo Art Commercial Studio photographs

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 a mold at Columbia Steel Casting Company

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1944-08

Part of Photo Art Commercial Studio photographs

A molder blows off parting compound (white powder) from a mold before the pattern is pulled from the sand at Columbia Steel Casting Company.

Atkeson, Ray

Checking a mold at Columbia Steel Casting Company

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1944-08

Part of Photo Art Commercial Studio photographs

Employees at Columbia Steel Casting Company check a mold after the pattern has been pulled.

Atkeson, Ray

Workers at Columbia Steel Casting Company

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1944-08

Part of Photo Art Commercial Studio photographs

Employees at Columbia Steel Casting Company pull a pattern from a mold.

Atkeson, Ray

Mold construction at Columbia Steel Casting Company

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1944-08

Part of Photo Art Commercial Studio photographs

Four employees use an overhead crane to close the two halves of a ship hull frame casting at Columbia Steel Casting Company.

Atkeson, Ray

Constructing a casting flask at Columbia Steel Casting Company

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1944-08

Part of Photo Art Commercial Studio photographs

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.

Atkeson, Ray