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Grinding seams on steel-cast components at Columbia Steel Casting Company

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1944-08

Part of Photo Art Commercial Studio photographs

An employee using a hand grinder to smooth seams on a steel-cast component at Columbia Steel Casting Company.

Atkeson, Ray

Grinding seams on steel-cast components at Columbia Steel Casting Company

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1944-08

Part of Photo Art Commercial Studio photographs

An employee using a swing frame grinder to clean skeg off a ship hull frame casting at Columbia Steel Casting Company.

Atkeson, Ray

Cleaning steel-cast components at Columbia Steel Casting Company

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1944-08

Part of Photo Art Commercial Studio photographs

Two employees work on stern frame of ship at Columbia Steel Casting Company. One employee uses a cutting torch to remove a riser and one uses a pneumatic chipping gun.

Atkeson, Ray

Welding a stern frame casting at Columbia Steel Casting Company

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1944-08

Part of Photo Art Commercial Studio photographs

An employee welding a joint on a stern frame casting at Columbia Steel Casting Company. Several other employees are visible working on other pieces in the background.

Atkeson, Ray

Cleaning steel-cast components at Columbia Steel Casting Company

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1944-08

Part of Photo Art Commercial Studio photographs

Employees using pneumatic chipping guns to clean a stern frame casting at Columbia Steel Casting Company.

Atkeson, Ray

Welder at Columbia Steel Casting Company

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1944-08

Part of Photo Art Commercial Studio photographs

An employee using an acetylene cutting torch with a track to remove a riser from a hull frame casting at Columbia Steel Casting Company.

Atkeson, Ray

Welder at Columbia Steel Casting Company

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1944-08

Part of Photo Art Commercial Studio photographs

An employee using a hand held acetylene cutting torch to remove a riser at Columbia Steel Casting Company.

Atkeson, Ray

Finish work on a steel propeller at Columbia Steel Casting Company

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1944-08

Part of Photo Art Commercial Studio photographs

An employee grinds flaws out of a steel propeller casting while two other men observe at Columbia Steel Casting Company.

Atkeson, Ray

Finish work on steel-cast components at Columbia Steel Casting Company

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1944-08

Part of Photo Art Commercial Studio photographs

Two employees using pneumatic tools on castings for a ship's hull at Columbia Steel Casting Company.

Atkeson, Ray

Cleaning room at Columbia Steel Casting Company

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1944-08

Part of Photo Art Commercial Studio photographs

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.”

Atkeson, Ray

Finish work on steel-cast components at Columbia Steel Casting Company

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Item
1944-08

Part of Photo Art Commercial Studio photographs

An employee using a pneumatic chipping gun on a stern frame casting at Columbia Steel Casting Company.

Atkeson, Ray

Molding hull castings at Columbia Steel Casting Company

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1944-08

Part of Photo Art Commercial Studio photographs

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.

Atkeson, Ray

Worker at Columbia Steel Casting Company

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1944-08

Part of Photo Art Commercial Studio photographs

A machinist using a lathe with an electric grinder on a manganese steel rock crusher liner at Columbia Steel Casting Company.

Atkeson, Ray

Worker at Columbia Steel Casting Company

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1944-08

Part of Photo Art Commercial Studio photographs

A machinist checks the angle of the ground surface of a rock crusher liner at Columbia Steel Casting Company.

Atkeson, Ray

Operating above-ground molding equipment at Columbia Steel Casting Company

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1944-08

Part of Photo Art Commercial Studio photographs

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

Forming a mold at Columbia Steel Casting Company

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1944-08

Part of Photo Art Commercial Studio photographs

Two employees at Columbia Steel Casting Company finish a larger core before it is set in the mold.

Atkeson, Ray

Workers at Columbia Steel Casting Company

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1944-08

Part of Photo Art Commercial Studio photographs

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

Mold-making at Columbia Steel Casting Company

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1944-08

Part of Photo Art Commercial Studio photographs

An employee checking cores before they are set in molds at Columbia Steel Casting Company.

Atkeson, Ray

Furnace at Columbia Steel Casting Company

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1944-08

Part of Photo Art Commercial Studio photographs

Detail view of the door for an arc furnace at Columbia Steel Casting Company.

Atkeson, Ray

Crane ladle at Columbia Steel Casting Company

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Item
1944-08

Part of Photo Art Commercial Studio photographs

An employee pouring steel into a crane ladle at Columbia Steel Casting Company.

Atkeson, Ray

A ship propeller at Columbia Steel Casting Company

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Item
1944-08

Part of Photo Art Commercial Studio photographs

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