The Republic Steel Corporation was formed in April 1930 from several smaller iron and steel companies, including Republic Iron and Steel, Central Alloy Corporation, Bourne-Fuller Company and Donner Steel Company. Corrigan McKinney Steel Company, Truscon Steel Company, and Gulf States Steel were acquired 1935-1937, and the company headquarters was moved from Youngstown, Ohio, to Cleveland, Ohio. The company included basic steel operations in Ohio, Buffalo, New York, Chicago, Illinois, Gadsden, Alabama, and elsewhere, as well as rolling mills, speciality steel operations, iron ore and coal mines, maritime operations, and research laboratories. During the 1980s, economic losses became severe, and in 1984 Jones and Laughlin Steel Corporation merged with Republic Steel, creating LTV Steel Company, a subsidiary of LTV Corporation. The collection consists of administrative records, advertisements, agendas, agreements, analyses, applications, architectural drawings, article sheets, audits, biographies, birth certificates, booklets, brochures, budgets, certificates, charts, citations, compliance reviews, computer printouts, constitutions, contracts, correspondence, deeds, determinations on imports, diagrams, dockets, drawings, earnings records, employment applications, financial records, forms, formulas, genealogy charts, goals and timetables, graphs, grievance sheets, handbooks, hazardous waste manifests, histories, indices, inspections, inventories, job classifications, job descriptions, journals, ledgers, legal briefs, legal records, legislation, lines of progression, lists, magazine articles, manuals, manuscript proofs, maps, memoirs, memoranda, minutes, newsletters, newspapers clippings, notebooks, notes, notices, pamphlets and promotional materials, permits, petitions, photographs, plans, policies and procedures, presentations, press releases, proposals, proxy statements, publications, questionnaires, real estate records including abstracts of titles, bills of sale, closing papers, conveyances, deeds, easements, indentures, leases, and rights of way, receipts, registers, remarks, reports, resolutions, rosters, rules and regulations, schedules, scrapbooks, scripts, separation notices, speech texts, statements, statistics, studies, subpoenas, summaries, surveys, tax records, telegrams, testimonies, time books, time lines, time sheets, trade adjustment assistance determinations, transcripts, typescripts, wage scale changes, wage rate records and cases, and work papers.
