Guide to the CF&I Archives – Commercial Record Group
Bessemer Historical Society
2007-2008
Guide to the CF&I Archives – Commercial Record Group | ||
| Title | CF&I Archives – Commercial Record Group | |
| Dates | 1877-1993 | |
| Identification | BHS-CFI-RG3 | |
| Extent: | 110 cubic feet | |
| Repository | CF&I Steel Archives, Bessemer Historical Society, 215 Canal Street, Pueblo, CO 81004, Phone: 719-564-7742 | |
Commercial Scope and Content Note
The Commercial record group includes documents from Public Relations, Sales, and Marketing. Marketing and advertising materials, catalogs of products sold by CF&I, correspondence, sales manuals, and other such types of documents are included in this record group. There is also information about various public openings for new departments at the Pueblo Plant, specifically the Seamless Tube Mill and the Rod Mill Openings. This record group spans the history of the company from the 1870s through the early 1990s. As this group is more fully processed, more information about it shall be made available.
Commercial Arrangement
Currently organized into three subgroups
SG 3.1, Sales Department, 1877-1993
SG 3.2, Advertising, 1949-1993
SG 3.3,Undefined, 1926-1990
Restrictions
Restrictions on access:
Certain materials are restricted due to privacy concerns. Please contact BHS staff for further information.
Restrictions on use:
Not all of the material in the collection is in the public domain. Researchers are responsible for addressing copyright issues. Please see the BHS copyright statement at
http://steelworks.us/index.php/archives2/copyrightinformation
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Index Terms
Subject Terms:
Colorado Fuel and Iron Company.
Colorado Fuel and Iron Corporation.
Colorado Fuel and Iron Corporation. John A. Roebling’s Sons Corporation.
SG 3.1
Sales Department 1877-1993
Extent: 43 boxes, COM-0001, COM-0003, COM-0005, COM-0011 through COM-0015, COM-0017 through COM-0050, COM-0053, COM-0056
Sales Department Scope and Content Note
Under construction
Sales Department Arrangement
Currently organized into three series
Series 3.1.1, Product Catalogs, 1916-1966
Series 3.1.2, World War II Sales, 1940-1945
Series 3.1.3, Unidentified, 1877-1993
Series 3.1.1
Product Catalogs 1916-1966
Extent: 4 boxes, COM-0001, COM-0003, COM-0005, COM-0054
Product Catalog Scope and Content Note
Under Construction
Product Catalog Arrangement
Under Construction
| Description | Container | ||||
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Product Catalogs (Including Roebling, Lackawanna Rails, and Illinois Steel Co.) 1916-1966 |
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Product Catalogs and Advertising Publications |
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Product Catalogs and PR/Advertising Materials |
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Bars and Shapes (Product Catalogs) no date |
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Series 3.1.2,
World War II Sales, 1940-1945
Extent: 1 box, COM-0016
World War II Sales Scope and Content Note
Under construction
World War II Sales Arrangement
Under construction
| Description | Container | ||||
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Price Approval Department (Controlled Materials Plan, Government Price Regulations, Defense Instructions, and Discontinued Realock) 1940-1945 |
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Series 3.1.3,
Undefined, 1887-1993
Extent: 39 boxes
Undefined Scope and Content Note
Under construction
Undefined Arrangement
Under construction
| Description | Container | ||||
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Sales and Order Status Reports 1973 |
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Discontinued Warehouses 1957-1970 |
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Works Manager Files 1985 |
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Vice President – Sales Operating Reports 1971 |
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Vice President – Sales Budget Reports, Expense Reports and Monthly Performance 1970-1971 |
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Correspondence about Railroad Sales 1989 |
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Rail Orders and Correspondence 1993 |
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Bar, Rod, and Wire Mill Files 1991 |
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Transfer Case #1 and Sales Operation Reports 1972 |
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Vice President of Sales Transfer Case #2; Sales Operation Report; Monthly Performance Records 1972 |
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Bar, Rod, and Wire Mill Files and Salesman Call Reports 1989-1990 |
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Customer Product Lists and Profitability Records 1983-1991 |
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Financial Reports; Major Accounts; Budgets; Profitability Analysis 1970-1972 |
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Vice President of Sales Market Research Department Reports 1968-1971 |
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Vice President of Sales Sales Records on Wire, Rolled, and Bar Products 1970-1976 |
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Vice President of Sales Reading Files, Sales Operating Reports, Standard Procedure Manual, and Miscellaneous Reports 1966-1975 |
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Multiple Railroad Modified Sections Files and Railroad Sales Correspondence and Rail and Joint Bar Drilling Prints 1954-1976 |
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National Accounts; Expense Accounts; Target Accounts; New Accounts; Association Membership 1967-1971 |
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Vice President Sales-Monthly Performance; Profitability Analysis 1970-1971 |
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Discontinued Products (Industrial Wire Cloth, Oakland Mill Products, Claymont Mill Products); Price Approval Department 1950-1970 |
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Miscellaneous Reports, Vice President, Sales, Board of Directors Meetings Capital Expenditures, Public Relations 1968-1975 |
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Miscellaneous Reports, Vice President, Sales, Pueblo Mill Reports, General Oil Co Purchases, Operations Meetings 1968-1975 |
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Storage Files; Advertising; Plant Closings and Reorganizations; Acquisition of Houseman Corp. 1968-1972 |
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CF&I Sales Products-Tubular, Wire, Rolled, Rail, Regional 1877-1978 |
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Product Department Files 1981 |
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Sales Department-Marita Draeger-Subject Files 1979-1980 |
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Sales Department-Product Files 1978-1980 |
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Sales Department-Marita Draeger/ Blackman/Burke-Subject Files 1980 |
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Sales Department-Vice President’s Files on Product Development 1967-1968 |
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Sales Department-Rail-Correspondence, Purchase Orders; Norfolk Southern-XYZ 1989 |
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Sales-Wire and Rolled Products 1973-1982 |
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Sales: call reports from customers 1983 |
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Sales: call reports from customers; pricing procedures and sales information, mostly wire; itineraries for salesmen 1970-1990 |
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Sales: advertising announcements, memberships, promotional and phone calls, itineraries 1969-1984 |
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Sales: Weekly itineraries 1982 |
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Rolled Customers Correspondence, 1983-1984 |
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Customers’ Orders Files (Union Pacific) 1988-1990 |
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Commercial Sales Manuals no date |
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Sales department, travel, relocation 1980-1989 |
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Manager of Sales correspondence – issues w/chemicals 1980 |
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Sales Statistics by Product; Payroll; LIFO no date |
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SG 3.2
Advertising 1949-1993
Extent: 8 boxes, COM-0003, COM-0005-COM-0007, COM-0009-COM-0010, COM-0051, COM-0052
Advertising Scope and Content Note
Under construction
Advertising Arrangement
Currently organized into two series
Series 3.2.1, Advertising, 1966-1975
Series 3.2.2, Undefined, unknown
Series 3.2.1
Advertising 1966-1975
Extent: 4 boxes, COM-0003, COM-0005, COM-0009, COM-0055
Advertsing Scope and Content Note
Under Constuction
Advertising Arrangment
Under Construction
| Description | Container | ||||
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Product Catalogs and Advertising Publications |
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Product Catalogs and PR/Advertising Materials |
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Bound Reprints of Advertising Materials 1966-1981 |
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Press Releases 1975-1977 |
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Series 3.2.2,
Undefined, 1949-1980,
Extent: 5 boxes
Advertsing Scope and Content Note
Under Constuction
Advertising Arrangment
Under Construction
| Description | Container | ||||
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Rod Mill Opening and Seamless Tube Mill Open House Working Files (Invitations, Invitation Lists, Correspondence, Final Report) 1949, 1953 |
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Rod Mill Opening Working Files (Organizational Charts for Planning Committees) |
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Seamless Tube Mill Opening 1953 |
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Public Relations: Historical Files 1950-1980 |
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Company Publications no date |
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SG 3.3
Undefined 1926-1990
Extent: 1 box, COM-0008
Undefined Scope and Content Note
Under construction
Sales Department Arrangement
Under construction
| Description | Container | |||
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Product Catalogs; Advertising Materials; Forms (Mostly for Roebling and Wickwire Steel Companies) 1926-1990 |
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