Series 9. Video Cassette Tapes Including Speeches, Interviews, and Testimony, 1987–2006

This series contains videocassette tapes and one digital video disc (DVD). Types of footage include television interviews, news segments, quarterly news conferences, promotional and informational films, advertisements, highlights of business conferences and trips, Congressional hearings, and other material.

This series encompasses a broad range of topics. Most of these topics concern Bethlehem Steel and the U.S. steel industry. These include earnings and profitability; restructuring and modernization; international trade and the steel import crisis; pensions and health care reform; valued customers such as General Motors (GM) and John Deere; the impact and versatility of steel products; good business practices and ethics; and industrial history. In addition, several items concern Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, and the Lehigh Valley in general, especially the decline of manufacturing, redevelopment and revitalization efforts, and local history.

Other topics in this series include education and educational institutions such as West Virginia University (WVU); the career and accomplishments of Curtis Barnette, as well as other industrialists and business leaders; the Board of Directors at MetLife; and special events such as the White House State Dinner that Curtis and Joanne Barnette attended during the Clinton administration.

Digital copies of these VHS tapes have been made; consult a curator for access.