Unidentified men work on finishing several steel cast pieces at Columbia Steel Casting Company. A stern frame casting is being polished in the foreground.
An employee at Columbia Steel Casting Company pours steel into a mold from a lip pour ladle while a second employee uses a rake to hold back floating slag.
Two employees at Columbia Steel Casting Company pour steel into opposite ends of a large mold from two ladles simultaneously ('Double Pour') for a steel cast component.
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.
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.
Workers pouring steel from the ladle into molds in the Columbia Steel Casting Company foundry. Pictured to the left of the ladle is Lee Beavers. In the foreground of the picture, D. C. Gore, furnace department foreman, is preparing to put riser compound on the riser top once pouring is complete.
War workers at an unidentified industrial facility in the Portland area. One man, wearing a leather apron, holds a block of metal with tongs, while another man stands behind (negative 9 of 9). Original sleeve title: War industry workers - blind workers; Doernbecher furniture; Kaiser, Swan Island; Willamette Iron and Steel Corp.
An employee using an electric swing frame grinder to clean skeg off a ship frame casting at Columbia Steel Casting Company. The caption at the bottom of the image reads, “Skeg being cleaned.”