Interior view of an oven at Columbia Steel Casting Company
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- 1944-08
An interior view of a heat treat oven via an observation port at Columbia Steel Casting Company.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Workers at Columbia Steel Casting Company
Four employees using a crane to set cores into a mold cavity 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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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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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.
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Chiseling steel-cast components at Columbia Steel Casting Company
An employee using a pneumatic chipping gun on a ship hull frame casting at Columbia Steel Casting Company.
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Welder at Columbia Steel Casting Company
An employee using an acetylene torch on a track burner to remove a riser at Columbia Steel Casting Company.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Checking a mold at Columbia Steel Casting Company
Employees at Columbia Steel Casting Company check a mold after the pattern has been pulled.
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Workers at Columbia Steel Casting Company
Employees at Columbia Steel Casting Company pull a pattern from a mold.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Making mold cavity inserts at Columbia Steel Casting Company
Two employees make mold cavity inserts ('Cores') at Columbia Steel Casting Company.
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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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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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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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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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Worker at Columbia Steel Casting Company
An employee adds material into an arc furnace 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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