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Filling molds at Columbia Steel Casting Company

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1944-08

Part of Photo Art Commercial Studio photographs

Four employees using a lip pour ladle to pour a large mold 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 using a pencil grinder on a casting prior to repair welding at Columbia Steel Casting Company.

Atkeson, Ray

Building a mold at Columbia Steel Casting Company

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1944-08

Part of Photo Art Commercial Studio photographs

A molder using a trowel to fine tune a large ship hull casting before the cores are set 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 adds material into an arc furnace at Columbia Steel Casting Company.

Atkeson, Ray

Lifting stern frame castings with a crane at Columbia Steel Casting Company

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1944-08

Part of Photo Art Commercial Studio photographs

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

A ship propeller at Columbia Steel Casting Company

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1944-08

Part of Photo Art Commercial Studio photographs

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.

Atkeson, Ray

Worker at Columbia Steel Casting Company

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1944-08

Part of Photo Art Commercial Studio photographs

An employee adjusts the torches used to keep two lip pour ladles hot, before being filled with molten steel 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

A molder setting cores in a deep 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

Two employees empty (‘tap’) an arc furnace of a batch (‘heat’) of steel into a ladle at Columbia Steel Casting Company.

Atkeson, Ray

Crane ladle at Columbia Steel Casting Company

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1944-08

Part of Photo Art Commercial Studio photographs

An employee rakes the slag off the top of the molten steel in a crane ladle 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

A melter pulls a liquid steel sample from arc furnace for analysis 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

An employee at Columbia Steel Casting Company uses a pneumatic rammer to pack backing sand into a cope (top half of mold).

Atkeson, Ray

Workers at Columbia Steel Casting Company

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1944-08

Part of Photo Art Commercial Studio photographs

Three employees add a riser to an arc furnace at Columbia Steel Casting Company.

Atkeson, Ray

Crane ladle at Columbia Steel Casting Company

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1944-08

Part of Photo Art Commercial Studio photographs

An employee steadies a crane ladle as it is filled with steel from an arc furnace at Columbia Steel Casting Company.

Atkeson, Ray

Crane ladle at Columbia Steel Casting Company

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1944-08

Part of Photo Art Commercial Studio photographs

An employee pouring steel into a crane ladle 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

Unidentified employees at Columbia Steel Casting Company working on a completed casting mold. One employee is shoveling heap sand. A second employee is standing on the mold loosening riser plugs with a sledge hammer for removal.

Atkeson, Ray

Filling flasks at Columbia Steel Casting Company

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1944-08

Part of Photo Art Commercial Studio photographs

Employees using an open cabbed overhead crane ladle to pour 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

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

Making mold cavity inserts at Columbia Steel Casting Company

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1944-08

Part of Photo Art Commercial Studio photographs

Two employees make mold cavity inserts ('Cores') 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 checking cores before they are set in molds at Columbia Steel Casting Company.

Atkeson, Ray

Furnace at Columbia Steel Casting Company

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1944-08

Part of Photo Art Commercial Studio photographs

Detail view of the door for an arc furnace at Columbia Steel Casting Company.

Atkeson, Ray

Pouring steel into a flask in the Columbia Steel Casting Company foundry

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1944-08

Part of Photo Art Commercial Studio photographs

Pouring crew at Columbia Steel Casting Company fills mall molds from a shank ladle.

Atkeson, Ray

Frank Budrow guiding a crane in the Columbia Steel Casting Company foundry

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1944-08

Part of Photo Art Commercial Studio photographs

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.

Atkeson, Ray