Loading a stern frame casting at Columbia Steel Casting Company
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- 1944-08
Three employees loading a large, stern frame casting onto a rail cart using a pulley hoist at Columbia Steel Casting Company.
Atkeson, Ray
Loading a stern frame casting at Columbia Steel Casting Company
Three employees loading a large, stern frame casting onto a rail cart using a pulley hoist at Columbia Steel Casting Company.
Atkeson, Ray
Welder at Columbia Steel Casting Company
An unidentified worker welding a joint on a cast-steel component at Columbia Steel Casting Company.
Atkeson, Ray
Cleaning skeg from castings at Columbia Steel Casting Company
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.”
Atkeson, Ray
Workers at Columbia Steel Casting Company
Unidentified men working on a stern frame and other steel cast components at Columbia Steel Casting Company.
Atkeson, Ray
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.
Atkeson, Ray
Welder at Columbia Steel Casting Company
An employee uses an acetylene torch track burner to remove a riser from a ship frame casting at Columbia Steel Casting Company.
Atkeson, Ray
Welder at Columbia Steel Casting Company
An employee uses a track burner to remove riser from a stern frame casting at Columbia Steel Casting Company.
Atkeson, Ray
Moving steel-cast components at Columbia Steel Casting Company
Employees guiding a ship hull frame casting on an overhead crane lift at Columbia Steel Casting Company.
Atkeson, Ray
Cleaning steel-cast components at Columbia Steel Casting Company
Employees operating swing grinders on a ship hull cast at Columbia Steel Casting Company.
Atkeson, Ray
Cleaning skeg from castings at Columbia Steel Casting Company
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
Welder at Columbia Steel Casting Company
An unidentified employee Employee removes solidification gusset with an acetylene cutting torch from a ship hull casting at Columbia Steel Casting Company.
Atkeson, Ray
Finish work on steel-cast components at Columbia Steel Casting Company
An employee using a pneumatic chipping gun inside a stern frame casting at Columbia Steel Casting Company.
Atkeson, Ray
Interior view of a mold at Columbia Steel Casting Company
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
Cleaning and finish grinding a steel propeller at Columbia Steel Casting Company
Employees at Columbia Steel Casting Company cleaning a casting with pneumatic chipping guns while two welders fill in flaws in a propeller casting.
Atkeson, Ray
Cleaning a steel-cast component at Columbia Steel Casting Company
An employee using a swing frame grinder on a large casting at Columbia Steel Casting Company.
Atkeson, Ray
Workers at Columbia Steel Casting Company
Unidentified molders at Columbia Steel Casting Company work under the cope of a mold. Molders use core nails to secure chills, the mold parting compound is visible (white at edge of mold cavity).
Atkeson, Ray
Cleaning skeg from castings at Columbia Steel Casting Company
Two employees work on cleaning a casting at Columbia Steel Casting Company. One employee uses a cutting torch to remove rigging, and another uses a bar to hand chip off sand.
Atkeson, Ray
Workers at Columbia Steel Casting Company
Two molders at Columbia Steel Casting Company start to pull a pattern from a deep mold.
Atkeson, Ray
Interior view of an oven at Columbia Steel Casting Company
An interior view of a heat treat oven via an observation port at Columbia Steel Casting Company.
Atkeson, Ray
Workers at Columbia Steel Casting Company
Six employees using a rail car to move cores into a core oven for baking at Columbia Steel Casting Company.
Atkeson, Ray
Workers at Columbia Steel Casting Company
Three employees using an overhead crane to pull a wooden pattern from a mold at Columbia Steel Casting Company.
Atkeson, Ray
Workers at Columbia Steel Casting Company
Four employees using a crane to set cores into a mold cavity at Columbia Steel Casting Company.
Atkeson, Ray
Worker at Columbia Steel Casting Company
An employee uses a pneumatic chipping gun to clean a casting at Columbia Steel Casting Company.
Atkeson, Ray
Mold-making at Columbia Steel Casting Company
An employee working on cores and making pouring cups at Columbia Steel Casting Company.
Atkeson, Ray
Liberty Ship stern subassemblies
A view of the stern subassemblies for a Liberty Ship showing how the stern frames produced by Columbia Steel Casting Company were welded to the ship’s hull plates.
Atkeson, Ray
Cleaning steel-cast components at Columbia Steel Casting Company
Two employees cleaning steel-cast components with an electric swing grinder and a pneumatic chipping gun at Columbia Steel Casting company.
Atkeson, Ray
Finish work on steel cast pieces at Columbia Steel Casting Company
Unidentified men work on finishing several steel cast pieces at Columbia Steel Casting Company. A stern frame casting is being polished in the foreground.
Atkeson, Ray
Welder at Columbia Steel Casting Company
An employee uses track burner to remove riser from stern frame casting at Columbia Steel Casting Company.
Atkeson, Ray