Processing Records Related to Colorado Mining and Steel Industries

FAIN: PA-51939-06

Bessemer Historical Society, Inc. (Pueblo, CO 81004-3409)
Emory Jay Trask (Project Director: July 2005 to January 2008)
Marcella D. Huggard (Project Director: January 2008 to May 2008)
Beverly Allen (Project Director: May 2008 to March 2009)

Arrangement and description of 300 cubic feet of archival records related to the mining and steel industries, trade unions, and labor relations at a Colorado fuel and iron company from 1872 to 1993.

We seek NEH funding for a two year project to achieve basic physical and intellectual control over the entire CF&I Archives (5,000 c.f.) and folder level control over the Labor Relations subgroup (300 c.f.) Products will include:(1)An EAD-encoded finding aid to be mounted on our website and the Rocky Mountain Online Archive. The finding aid will have record group level scope and content notes and box lists for the entire collection and folder level descriptive inventory for the Labor Relations subgroup.(2)A collection level MARC/AMC catalog record, and linked record group level catalog records to be added to the RLIN/AMC file.