Description: Caption reads: "People at Work and Play." This man is welding at work in Cincinnati, Ohio. The man is wearing a welding helmet while clamping and welding two pieces of metal together. The man appears to be stick welding, otherwise known as Shielded metal arc welding (SMAW), or manual metal arc (MMA) welding. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B15F03_029_01
Subjects: Ohio Writers' Program of the Work Projects Administration; Welding
Places: Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio)
 

Description: Photograph shows shielded metal arc welding, informally known as stick welding, which uses an electric current to form an electric arc between the electrode and the metals to be joined. The welder is wearing standard personal protective equipment including heavy leather gloves, a long sleeve jacket, and a welding helmet. Welding is a fabrication or sculptural process that joins materials, usually metals or thermoplastics, by causing coalescence. This is often done by melting the workpieces and adding a filler material to form a pool of molten material (the weld pool) that cools to become a strong joint, with pressure sometimes used in conjunction with heat, or by itself, to produce the weld. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B07F07_033_1
Subjects: Welding industry--United States; Shielded metal arc welding--Equipment and supplies; Ohio--History--Pictorial works
Places: Ohio
 

Description: Two pieces of metal can be welded together using a method known as electric welding. It is done using a powerful electric current to heat and weld the metal. The process can weld two unlike pieces of metal, as long as the heating point is each piece is the same. Otherwise, the method of soldering at the weld joint must be used. The skill of electric welding can be accomplished with a minimum amount of training. This process is perfect for the novice welder. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B07F07_014_1
Subjects: Industry; Electric welding
 

Description: This scene depicts a welding tank in a machine shop at Youngstown Sheet & Tube Company's Brier Hill works. This is also the scene of a safety and welding tank explosion. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AC2_YHCIL_MSS0140_B01F01_002
Subjects: Steel industry--1930-1940; Steel industry and trade--Accidents; Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company. Brier Hill works; Steel Industry-- Youngstown (Ohio); Welding--1930-1940
Places: Youngstown (Ohio); Mahoning County (Ohio)
 

Description: Reverse reads: "Welding an air sealed vault, Metallic Casket Co." This photograph shows an unidentified man welding an air sealed vault at the Springfield Metallic Casket Company in Springfield, Ohio. The Springfield Metallic Casket Company was located on the northeast corner of Main and Mechanic (now Lowry) streets in Springfield, Ohio. The company was founded in 1884 by A. A. Baker, D. R. Hosterman, Ross Mitchell, Scipio E. Baker, and Edgar N. Lupfer. The company grew to become one of the nation's largest manufacturers of metal caskets and burial vaults. By 1959 it had 230 employees. In the early 1960s, the company became a division of Springfield Greene Industries, Inc., which also owned Springfield's Thermometer Corporation of America. Later, it became a subsidiary of A-T-O Corporation of Willoughby, Ohio. The casket company finally had to close its doors on November 30, 1974 after almost 100 years of continuous production. It was one of the largest producers of burial vaults and metal caskets in the country, and some rumors claim that caskets were built there for Al Capone, President John F. Kennedy, and Buffalo Bill Cody. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B07F12_017_1
Subjects: Business and Labor; Welding--1930-1940; Vaults (Strong rooms); Works Progress Administration of Ohio (U.S.)
Places: Springfield (Ohio); Clark County (Ohio)
 

Description: This picture displays welding hoses, guages, and valves on a table at Youngstown Sheet & Tube Company's Brier Hill works. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AC2_YHCIL_MSS0140_B01F01_004
Subjects: Steel industry--1930-1940; Steel industry and trade--Accidents; Youngstown Sheet andTube Company. Brier Hill works; Steel Industry-- Youngstown (Ohio); Welding--1930-1940
Places: Youngstown (Ohio); Mahoning County (Ohio)
 

Description: This photograph depicts a welding tank focsing on hoses and pressure guages at Youngstown Sheet & Tube Company's Brier Hill works. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AC2_YHCIL_MSS0140_B01F01_003
Subjects: Steel industry--1930-1940; Steel industry and trade--Accidents; Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company. Brier Hill works; Steel Industry-- Youngstown (Ohio); Welding--1930-1940
Places: Youngstown (Ohio); Mahoning County (Ohio)
 

Description: This photograph depicts two welding tanks at Youngstown Sheet & Tube Company's Campbell works. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AC2_YHCIL_MSS0140_B01F01_008
Subjects: Steel industry--1930-1940; Steel industry and trade--Accidents; Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company. Brier Hill works; Steel Industry-- Youngstown (Ohio); Welding--1930-1940
Places: Youngstown (Ohio); Mahoning County (Ohio)
 

Description: This photograph shows a workman welding a large circular object, which has large gear like ridges on the circumference. This could be the Morgan Engineering Company. More information needed. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B08F03_011_001
Subjects: Industries--Ohio; Machine shops; Welding; Welders (Persons)
Places: Ohio
 

Description: This photograph shows a man welding a large circular object with gear like teeth around the circumference. This could be the Morgan Engineering Company, though more information is needed to be certain. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B08F03_014_001
Subjects: Industries--Ohio; Machine shops; Welding; Welders (Persons)
Places: Ohio
 

Description: This photograph shows a man welding. This could be the Morgan Engineering Company, though more information is needed to be certain. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B08F03_033_001
Subjects: Industries--Ohio; Machine shops; Welding; Welders (Persons)
Places: Ohio
 

Description: Open Hearth 7 inch electric welding machine 1929 at Republic Steel Youngstown, Ohio. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AC2_YHCIL_MSS0012_B04F34_001
Subjects: Republic Steel Corporation; Steel Industry; Open-hearth furnaces; Electric welding--Equipment and supplies
Places: Youngstown (Ohio); Mahoning County (Ohio)