Program

Preservation and Access: Reference Materials - Access

Period of Performance

1/1/1978 - 12/31/1980

Funding Totals

$60,047.85 (approved)
$60,047.85 (awarded)


Milwaukee Sentinel Index Transcription

FAIN: RC-*0573-78

Milwaukee Public Library (Milwaukee, WI 53233-2309)
Herbert W. Rice (Project Director: November 1977 to October 1990)

To complete an integrated index to the Sentinel, the state's oldest paper for state news. The projects was begun under the WPA; transcription and filing of cards for the period 1790-1890 are yet unfinished. The index will be an important source for the history of the social and economic development of Wisconsin.