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Title: Sheffield Steel--Armco Division
Description: Photos, illustrations, and information on the Sheffield Steel Company and its Armco division in the Sheffield industrial district of Northeast Kansas City along the Blue River, established in 1888 as the Kansas City Bolt and Nut Company and closed in February 2001.
Object Type: Vertical File

Title: GS Industries Announces Closing of Kansas City Plant
Description: GS Industries, Inc., parent company of GST Steel Company, filed for bankruptcy reorganization and will permanently close the GST Steel plant here in Kansas City. It was the last vestige of the Kansas City Bolt and Nut Company which opened in 1888.
Date: 2001-02-14
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Shutdown Is End of an Era: 750 Workers to Lose Jobs in Plant Closing
Description: Photos, maps, and article about the closing of the GST Steel Company plant at about Independence Avenue and Interstate 435 "in the Northeast area of Kansas City," ending the company's "local ties dat[ing] to the 19th century." Description of its recent operations leading to bankruptcy and release of 750 workers, including many members of the "United Steelworkers of America Local 13-A" labor union. Chronology of its various incarnations, starting in 1888 as the Kansas City Bolt & Nut Company and taken over by the Sheffield Steel Corporation in 1925, then acquired by Armco Steel Corporation in 1930 and expanding in 1945, then going through other modifications until sold in 1993 and becoming GS Technologies and then GST Steel Company in 1995.
Date: 2001-02-08
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Former GST Workers Face Benefits Deadline
Description: This article contains information concerning the welfare of employees who were laid off from their jobs at GST Steel Company when its parent company GS Industries went into bankruptcy. Various programs and options available to workers is brought out.
Date: 2003-01-29
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Obituary for John William Anderson
Description: Obituary for John William Anderson, or John Anderson, president of the Sheffield division of the Armco Steel Company before retiring in 1956, dying in 1974 at the age of 86.
Date: 1974-03-15
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: John William Anderson, Ex-Armco Executive, Dies
Description: Article about the life of John William Anderson, or John Anderson, "president of the Sheffield Division of Armco Steel Corporation," retiring in 1956 and starting in 1919 with "the old Kansas City Bolt & Nut Company," "reorganized in 1925 as the Sheffield Steel Corporation" in the Sheffield industrial district, and becoming a company executive by 1952.
Date: 1974-03-15
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Sheffield Steel Company
Description: Interior view of plant showing unidentified workers and continuous wire drawing machines; located at 7100 Roberts Street.
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Sheffield Steel Company
Description: Aerial view, looking southeast, of company and grounds; also shows Big Blue River.
Date: 1955
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Sheffield Steel Company
Description: Aerial view, looking northwest, of company and grounds; also shows Montgomery Wards building and Big Blue River.
Date: 1955
Object Type: Photograph

Title: It Takes Balls
Description: Article describes the history and current state of the steel industry in Kansas City.
Date: 2003-04-10
Object Type: Magazine Article

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