Cleaning steel-cast components at Columbia Steel Casting Company
- OrgLot791_PA64209-21
- Item
- 1944-08
An employee using a swing grinder on a stern frame casting at Columbia Steel Casting company.
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Furnace at Columbia Steel Casting Company
- OrgLot791_PA64209-73
- Item
- 1944-08
Detail view of the door for an arc furnace at Columbia Steel Casting Company.
Atkeson, Ray
Finish work on steel-cast components at Columbia Steel Casting Company
- OrgLot791_PA64209-30
- Item
- 1944-08
An employee using a pneumatic chipping gun on a stern frame casting at Columbia Steel Casting Company.
Atkeson, Ray
Finish work on steel-cast components at Columbia Steel Casting Company
- OrgLot791_PA64209-32
- Item
- 1944-08
An employee using a pneumatic chipping gun inside a stern frame casting at Columbia Steel Casting Company.
Atkeson, Ray
Packing sand into a casting flask at Columbia Steel Casting Company
- OrgLot791_PA64209-63
- Item
- 1944-08
An employee using a pneumatic rammer to pack sand into a core box at Columbia Steel Casting Company.
Atkeson, Ray
Worker at Columbia Steel Casting Company
- OrgLot791_PA64209-84
- Item
- 1944-08
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
Cleaning a steel-cast component at Columbia Steel Casting Company
- OrgLot791_PA64209-38
- Item
- 1944-08
An employee using a chipping gun to excavate a casting defect to prepare for a weld repair at Columbia Steel Casting Company.
Atkeson, Ray
A ship propeller at Columbia Steel Casting Company
- OrgLot791_PA64209-82
- Item
- 1944-08
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
Constructing a casting flasks at Columbia Steel Casting Company
- OrgLot791_PA64209-64
- Item
- 1944-08
An employee on a crane seat uses a slinger to fill a larger mold box with sand at Columbia Steel Casting Company.
Atkeson, Ray
Interior view of a mold at Columbia Steel Casting Company
- OrgLot791_PA64209-33
- Item
- 1944-08
An interior view of a deep mold with many nails in the bottom to be used as a chill at Columbia Steel Casting Company.
Atkeson, Ray
Worker at Columbia Steel Casting Company
- OrgLot791_PA64209-100
- Item
- 1944-08
An employee using a small pneumatic grinder to blend the parting line on a casting at Columbia Steel Casting Company.
Atkeson, Ray
Cleaning a steel-cast component at Columbia Steel Casting Company
- OrgLot791_PA64209-44
- Item
- 1944-08
An employee using a swing frame grinder on a large casting at Columbia Steel Casting Company.
Atkeson, Ray
Cleaning skeg from castings at Columbia Steel Casting Company
- OrgLot791_PA64209-25
- Item
- 1944-08
An employee uses a prybar to remove the slag after an acetylene cutting torch has cut the riser steel-cast component at Columbia Steel Casting Company.
Atkeson, Ray
Cleaning steel-cast components at Columbia Steel Casting Company
- OrgLot791_PA64209-24
- Item
- 1944-08
Employees operating swing grinders on a ship hull cast at Columbia Steel Casting Company.
Atkeson, Ray
Cleaning steel-cast components at Columbia Steel Casting Company
- OrgLot791_PA64209-23
- Item
- 1944-08
Employees using swing grinders, chipping guns, and pneumatic chisels on steel-cast components at Columbia Steel Casting Company.
Atkeson, Ray
Workers at Columbia Steel Casting Company
- OrgLot791_PA64209-51
- Item
- 1944-08
Employees at Columbia Steel Casting Company pull a pattern from a mold.
Atkeson, Ray
Packing sand into a mold at Columbia Steel Casting Company
- OrgLot791_PA64209-53
- Item
- 1944-08
Two employees at Columbia Steel Casting Company hand packing sand into a core box to form a core.
Atkeson, Ray
Interior view of an oven at Columbia Steel Casting Company
- OrgLot791_PA64209-52
- Item
- 1944-08
An interior view of a heat treat oven via an observation port at Columbia Steel Casting Company.
Atkeson, Ray
Constructing a casting flask at Columbia Steel Casting Company
- OrgLot791_PA64209-55
- Item
- 1944-08
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
Cleaning a mold at Columbia Steel Casting Company
- OrgLot791_PA64209-45
- Item
- 1944-08
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
Workers at Columbia Steel Casting Company
- OrgLot791_PA64209-61
- Item
- 1944-08
Six employees using a rail car to move cores into a core oven for baking at Columbia Steel Casting Company.
Atkeson, Ray
Worker at Columbia Steel Casting Company
- OrgLot791_PA64209-105
- Item
- 1944-08
An employee using a grinder on a grinding gear blank (end user Hammond Lumber Co.) at Columbia Steel Casting Company.
Atkeson, Ray
Workers at Columbia Steel Casting Company
- OrgLot791_PA64209-58
- Item
- 1944-08
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.
Atkeson, Ray
Interior view of Columbia Steel Casting Company
- OrgLot791_PA64209-110
- Item
- 1944-08
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.
Atkeson, Ray
Interior view of Columbia Steel Casting Company
- OrgLot791_PA64209-109
- Item
- 1944-08
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.
Atkeson, Ray
Columbia Steel Casting Company
- PA64209
- Series
- 1944
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.
Atkeson, Ray
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