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INDEX NAME: The Daily Pantagraph Index |
NEWSPAPERS INDEXED:
- THE DAILY PANTAGRAPH Bloomington IL 1854-1950
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COMPILER: Works Progress Administration (WPA) project originally, but additions to the 1950 were made by the McLean County Historical Society. |
LOCATION or PUBLISHER: |
MCLEAN COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY 201 E. Grove St. Bloomington IL 61701 Telephone: (309) 827-0428
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AVAILABILITY: Only one copy of this card file index exists. It must be used in the library of the McLean County Historical Society. |
SCOPE OF INDEX: News articles, vital statistics, railroad schedules, advertisements. |
FORMAT OF INDEX: A 3x5 card file index arranged in alphabetical order by subject and name (both personal and corporate names included). Entries consist of the headline and a brief description of the event, plus the citation. The citation may either preceed the annotation or follow it. There may be more than one citation per card. |
BIBLIOGRAPHY:
1. Herbert O. Brayer. "Preliminary guide to indexed newspapers in the United States, 1850-1900". Mississippi Valley Historical Review, v.33, #2, Sept. 2, 1946.
2. Harry A. Friedman. NEWSPAPER INDEXING. Marquette University Press, Milwaukee WI, 1942.
3. Anita Cheek Milner. NEWSPAPER INDEXES: A LOCATION & SUBJECT GUIDE FOR RESEARCHERS. Scarecrow Press, Metuchen NJ, 1977.
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LATHROP REPORT ON NEWSPAPER INDEXES. 1979-1980 Edition. Copyright © 1979 by Norman Lathrop Enterprises. ISBN 0-910868-10-7. All Rights Reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted, in any form or by any means without the prior expressed permission of Norman Lathrop Enterprises, except as permitted by law.
Every effort was made to ensure the accuracy of the report at the time of publication.
However, it is imperative that the user contact the organization cited in a report for the current status of the index, especially if planning to visit the institution and do research using the index.
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