For years, the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company in Pueblo was one of the largest steel makers in the West. The vast CF&I archives are now held by the nonprofit Bessemer Historical Society, and archivist Jay Trask describes the task of sorting through one of the country's largest collections of corporate records.
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