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Loading a stern frame casting at Columbia Steel Casting Company

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1944-08

Part of Photo Art Commercial Studio photographs

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

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1944-08

Part of Photo Art Commercial Studio photographs

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

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1944-08

Part of Photo Art Commercial Studio photographs

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

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1944-08

Part of Photo Art Commercial Studio photographs

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

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1944-08

Part of Photo Art Commercial Studio photographs

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

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1944-08

Part of Photo Art Commercial Studio photographs

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

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1944-08

Part of Photo Art Commercial Studio photographs

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

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1944-08

Part of Photo Art Commercial Studio photographs

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

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1944-08

Part of Photo Art Commercial Studio photographs

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

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1944-08

Part of Photo Art Commercial Studio photographs

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

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1944-08

Part of Photo Art Commercial Studio photographs

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

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1944-08

Part of Photo Art Commercial Studio photographs

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

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1944-08

Part of Photo Art Commercial Studio photographs

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

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1944-08

Part of Photo Art Commercial Studio photographs

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

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1944-08

Part of Photo Art Commercial Studio photographs

An employee using a swing frame grinder on a large casting at Columbia Steel Casting Company.

Atkeson, Ray

Workers at Columbia Steel Casting Company

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1944-08

Part of Photo Art Commercial Studio photographs

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

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1944-08

Part of Photo Art Commercial Studio photographs

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

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1944-08

Part of Photo Art Commercial Studio photographs

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

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1944-08

Part of Photo Art Commercial Studio photographs

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

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1944-08

Part of Photo Art Commercial Studio photographs

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

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1944-08

Part of Photo Art Commercial Studio photographs

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

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1944-08

Part of Photo Art Commercial Studio photographs

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

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1944-08

Part of Photo Art Commercial Studio photographs

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

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1944-08

Part of Photo Art Commercial Studio photographs

An employee working on cores and making pouring cups at Columbia Steel Casting Company.

Atkeson, Ray

Liberty Ship stern subassemblies

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1944-08

Part of Photo Art Commercial Studio photographs

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