Cleaning steel-cast components at Columbia Steel Casting Company
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- 1944-08
An employee using a swing grinder on a stern frame casting at Columbia Steel Casting company.
Atkeson, Ray
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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.
Atkeson, Ray
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.
Atkeson, Ray
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
Packing sand into a casting flask at Columbia Steel Casting Company
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
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
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
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
Employees at Columbia Steel Casting Company check a mold after the pattern has been pulled.
Atkeson, Ray
Workers at Columbia Steel Casting Company
Employees at Columbia Steel Casting Company pull a pattern from a mold.
Atkeson, Ray
Mold construction at Columbia Steel Casting Company
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
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
Packing sand into a casting flask at Columbia Steel Casting Company
An employee using a pneumatic rammer to pack sand into a core box at Columbia Steel Casting Company.
Atkeson, Ray
Making mold cavity inserts at Columbia Steel Casting Company
Two employees make mold cavity inserts ('Cores') at Columbia Steel Casting Company.
Atkeson, Ray
Workers at Columbia Steel Casting Company
Three employees add a riser to an arc furnace at Columbia Steel Casting Company.
Atkeson, Ray
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.
Atkeson, Ray
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.
Atkeson, Ray
Worker at Columbia Steel Casting Company
A melter pulls a liquid steel sample from arc furnace for analysis at Columbia Steel Casting Company.
Atkeson, Ray
Worker at Columbia Steel Casting Company
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
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
Filling molds at Columbia Steel Casting Company
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
An employee using a pencil grinder on a casting prior to repair welding at Columbia Steel Casting Company.
Atkeson, Ray
Employees at Columbia Steel Casting Company
Two employees using grinders and chisels on a bullion pot casting at Columbia Steel Casting Company.
Atkeson, Ray
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.
Atkeson, Ray
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.
Atkeson, Ray
Welder at Columbia Steel Casting Company
An employee using an acetylene cutting torch to remove a riser from a casting at Columbia Steel Casting Company.
Atkeson, Ray
Welder at Columbia Steel Casting Company
An employee uses an acetylene cutting torch to cut off rigging from ship hull part at Columbia Steel Casting Company.
Atkeson, Ray
Worker at Columbia Steel Casting Company
An employee using a grinder on a grinding gear blank (end user Hammond Lumber Co.) at Columbia Steel Casting Company.
Atkeson, Ray
Welder at Columbia Steel Casting Company
An unidentified employee uses an acetylene cutting torch to cut off rigging from a ship hull part at Columbia Steel Casting Company.
Atkeson, Ray