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Re: Records of Steel mills



John,

Our collections do not dicuss steel making as such,  but we have substantial
records on the mining of iron ore, especially on the equipment used to do it.


Best wishes,

Thomas Berry, Archivist
Historical Construction Equipment Association
16623 Liberty Hi Road
Bowling Green, Ohio 43402
Phone 419-352-5616
Fax 419-352-6086
tberry@wcnet.org
http://www.hcea.net



John Macleod wrote:

> Would anyone be aware of any collections of records from a steel company.
> In looking over the net I have come across a few repositories that have
> good documentation on who may have worked in a plant but I have seen few
> records that reflect the management of an industrial complex.
>
> Steel making seems to be a complex business involving the integrated works
> of a number of separate industrial processes - even more so as the product
> line is diversified.  As such one might expect a lot of records that
> reflect the difficulty of co-ordinating these activities and then the usual
> corporate stuff of management planning, governance, marketing and so on.
> There would probably be a lot of technical stuff created or kept that might
> have relevance if you were standing by the switches but which probably
> would be of no archival interest.
>
> On the other hand I could be totally wrong about what the archival record
> of a steel mill would be like.  Are there any collections out there that
> might shed some light on what archives might be found in a steel mill.
>
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