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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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Welder at Columbia Steel Casting Company
An employee repair welding on a casting at Columbia Steel Casting Company.
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Lifting steel-castings with a crane at Columbia Steel Casting Company
An unidentified worker helps guide a large steel-cast component being lifted by a crane at Columbia Steel Casting Company.
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Packing sand into a casting flask at Columbia Steel Casting Company
An employee at Columbia Steel Casting Company using a pneumatic rammer to pack sand in the drag (bottom) of a mold.
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Mold-making at Columbia Steel Casting Company
An employee working on cores and making pouring cups at Columbia Steel Casting Company.
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Employees at Columbia Steel Casting Company
Two employees using grinders and chisels on a bullion pot casting at Columbia Steel Casting Company.
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Worker at Columbia Steel Casting Company
An employee using a hand grinder on a ship hull casting at Columbia Steel Casting Company.
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Worker at Columbia Steel Casting Company
An employee using a large swing frame grinder on a ship stern hull casting at Columbia Steel Casting Company.
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Worker at Columbia Steel Casting Company
An employee uses a pneumatic chipping gun to clean a casting 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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Worker at Columbia Steel Casting Company
An employee using a pencil grinder on a casting prior to repair welding at Columbia Steel Casting Company.
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Grinding seams on steel-cast components at Columbia Steel Casting Company
An employee using a swing frame grinder to clean skeg off a ship hull frame casting at Columbia Steel Casting Company.
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Filling molds at Columbia Steel Casting Company
Four employees using a lip pour ladle to pour a large mold at Columbia Steel Casting Company.
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Building a mold at Columbia Steel Casting Company
A molder using a trowel to fine tune a large ship hull casting before the cores are set 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
A molder setting cores in a deep mold at Columbia Steel Casting Company.
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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.
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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
An employee adds material into an arc furnace 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
A melter pulls a liquid steel sample from arc furnace for analysis at Columbia Steel Casting Company.
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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.
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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.
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Packing sand into a casting flask at Columbia Steel Casting Company
An employee at Columbia Steel Casting Company uses a pneumatic rammer to pack backing sand into a cope (top half of mold).
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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.
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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.
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Packing sand into a casting flask at Columbia Steel Casting Company
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.
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Workers at Columbia Steel Casting Company
Three employees add a riser to an arc furnace at Columbia Steel Casting Company.
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