Welder Barbara Craig, of Commercial Iron Works in Portland, bending downward in a garden. She holds a garden tool in her right hand, and a jacket can be seen thrown over a wooden post. This photograph was published on page 2 of the Oregon Journal’s “Picture Parade” section on Sunday, June 6, 1943 (negative 3 of 7).

Workers with scrap iron from Battleship Oregon at Commercial Iron Works, Portland. The scrap was used to make parts for Liberty ship engines by the company. A photograph from this series was published on page 1C of the Oregon Journal on Sunday, November 14, 1943 (negative 2 of 4).

Commercial Iron Works superintendent Oscar Howden, pointing toward scrap iron from Battleship Oregon. The scrap was used to make parts for Liberty ship engines produced by the company. This photograph was published on page 1C of the Oregon Journal on Sunday, November 14, 1943 (negative 1 of 4).

Beatrice Greenwalt, superintendent of Shrine Hospital, smashes a bottom of the hull of a newly built subchaser at Commercial Iron Works in Portland. A photograph from this story was published on page 4A of the Oregon Journal on Sunday, August 29, 1943 (negative 5 of 5).

Beatrice Greenwalt, superintendent of Shrine Hospital, prepares to smash a bottle on the hull of a subchaser at Commercial Iron Works in Portland. Winston Casey, president of Commercial Iron Works, stands next to Greenwalt and looks downward at a wrapped bottle. This photograph was published on page 4A of the Oregon Journal on Sunday, August 29, 1943 (negative 1 of 5).

Photograph showing Berkeley Snow (left) receiving a donation from H. W. Erren, treasurer of Albina Engine & Machine Works in Portland, as Albina worker Ruth Sanders holds up the Red Cross emblem. A cropped version of this photograph was published on Page 11 of the Oregon Journal’s final edition on Wednesday, March 17, 1943. It had the following caption: “RESULTS OF BLITZ drive at Albina Engine & Machine Works in Hang Hitler campaign to raise funds for the Red Cross 1943 war fund campaign is shown with Berkeley Snow (left), vice chairman of drive, receiving $10,125 from H. W. Erren, treasurer of the sub-chaser plant, while Ruth Sanders, pretty electrician’s helper, holds up the Red Cross signifying that Albina was first shipyard to go over the top 100 percent.” The photograph accompanied a story headlined “Lumber Workers Help Drive / Labor Backing Red Cross.” See related image No. 375A0750. Image note: The number 234 is written on the negative and is visible in the lower right corner of the image. The text “Albina shipbuilding” is written on the negative sleeve.

Photograph showing (from left) Ruth Sanders and H. W. Erren of Albina Engine & Machine Works with Berkeley Snow of the Red Cross on March 17, 1943, when Sanders and Erren gave Snow a $10,125 donation from the Portland shipyard to the Red Cross war fund campaign. Sanders, an electrician’s helper, is holding a bag with the Red Cross emblem on the front. Erren, Albina Engine’s treasurer, is sitting at a desk and showing the list of contributors to Snow, the vice chairman of the fundraising drive, who is standing next to him. A similar photograph, image No. 375A0748, and a story about contributions to the drive were published on Page 11 of the Oregon Journal’s final edition on Wednesday, March 17, 1943. Image note: The number 235 is written on the negative and is visible in the lower right corner of the image. The text “Albina shipbuilding” is written on the negative sleeve.

A blind war industry worker, wearing shaded glasses, leans down towards a machine holding a pipe. Next to him is another man, wearing a suit and placing his hand on the first man’s back. They are in a workshop at an unidentified industrial facility in the Portland area (negative 1 of 9). Original sleeve title: War industry workers - blind workers; Doernbecher furniture; Kaiser, Swan Island; Willamette Iron and Steel Corp.

A blind war industry worker stands in front of a lathe at an unidentified industrial facility in the Portland area. Another man, wearing a leather apron, stands next to the first man. The lathe is on a workbench holding tools and other materials (negative 3 of 9). Original sleeve title: War industry workers - blind workers; Doernbecher furniture; Kaiser, Swan Island; Willamette Iron and Steel Corp.

A blind war industry worker, wearing shaded glasses, pulls down on the handle of a drill press at an unidentified industrial facility in the Portland area. Metal shaving are pilled on the platform and under the drill press, while a table of metal casings sit next to the worker (negative 2 of 9). Original sleeve title: War industry workers - blind workers; Doernbecher furniture; Kaiser, Swan Island; Willamette Iron and Steel Corp.

Men braiding rope (or steel cable) in a workshop at Commercial Iron Works in Portland. Four men are standing in a line, each with a length of rope, while another man watches. Tools and a work bench can be seen along the far wall (negative 36 of 37).

A molder using a trowel to fine tune a large ship hull casting before the cores are set at Columbia Steel Casting Company.

Burney Steigelmier uses a Isherwood web burner at Kaiser Company, Swan Island. Steigelmier is kneeling downward, wearing a head cover and face shield, next to a metal surface. This photograph was published on page D1 of the Oregon Journal on Sunday, June 11, 1944 (negative 2 of 6).

Two carpenters in a woodshop at Oregon Shipbuilding Corporation in Portland. A wooden structure can be seen on the table, where a man is using a plane. Work benches and tools can be seen against the far windows (negative 2 of 37).

Two cats in a wheelbarrow at Shofner Iron & Steel Works in Portland. Several metal barrels are on the ground next to the wheelbarrow (negative 1 of 6).

Employees at Columbia Steel Casting Company check a mold after the pattern has been pulled.

An employee using a pneumatic chipping gun on a ship hull frame casting 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.

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

An employee using a chipping gun to excavate a casting defect to prepare for a weld repair 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.

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.”

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.”

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.

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.

Employees operating swing grinders on a ship hull cast at Columbia Steel Casting Company.

An employee using a swing grinder on a stern frame casting at Columbia Steel Casting company.

Employees using swing grinders, chipping guns, and pneumatic chisels on steel-cast components at Columbia Steel Casting Company.