Finish work on a steel propeller at Columbia Steel Casting Company
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- 1944-08
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 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 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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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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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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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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Worker at Columbia Steel Casting Company
A machinist using a lathe with an electric grinder on a manganese steel rock crusher liner at Columbia Steel Casting Company.
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Worker at Columbia Steel Casting Company
A machinist checks the angle of the ground surface of a rock crusher liner 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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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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Workers at Columbia Steel Casting Company
Two employees use an overhead crane to pick up a core and a third employee uses a hand tamper to pack a core box with sand.
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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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Furnace at Columbia Steel Casting Company
Detail view of the door for an arc furnace 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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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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Worker at Columbia Steel Casting Company
An employee adjusts the torches used to keep two lip pour ladles hot, before being filled with molten steel at Columbia Steel Casting Company.
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Worker at Columbia Steel Casting Company
A molder setting cores in a deep mold at Columbia Steel Casting Company.
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Workers at Columbia Steel Casting Company
Two employees empty (‘tap’) an arc furnace of a batch (‘heat’) of steel into a ladle at Columbia Steel Casting Company.
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Worker at Columbia Steel Casting Company
An employee uses a pneumatic chipping gun with repair welding goes on behind him at Columbia Steel Casting Company.
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Welder at Columbia Steel Casting Company
An employee repair welding on a casting at Columbia Steel Casting Company.
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Worker at Columbia Steel Casting Company
An employee using a small electric grinder on a cast pin at Columbia Steel Casting Company.
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Worker at Columbia Steel Casting Company
An employee using an electric swing frame grinder on a steel-cast component at Columbia Steel Casting Company.
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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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Columbia Steel Casting Company
This series contains photographs of steelworkers and equipment detailing the steel casting process used for making large steel components for Liberty Ships constructed in Portland (Or.) area shipyards during World War II.
Supplemental descriptive information contributed in 2019 by Chris Horn, Facilities Director for Columbia Steel.
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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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Welder at Columbia Steel Casting Company
An employee using an acetylene torch on a track burner to remove a riser 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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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.
Atkeson, Ray