Title: United States. Weather Bureau. Madison Station: Predecessor Records of Weather Observations
Inclusive Dates: 1853-1864, 1869-1887, 1903-1904

Creator:

• United States. Weather Bureau. Madison Station (Madison, Wis.)

Call Number: U.S. Mss V

Quantity: 2.2 c.f. (3 archives boxes and 2 flat boxes)

Repository:

Wisconsin Historical Society, Division of Library, Archives, and Museum Collections

Archival Locations:

Wisconsin Historical Society (Map)

COLLECTION MAY BE STORED OFF-SITE: see catalog entry to request materials and for additional information.

Abstract:

Records of the Madison weather station located at and operated by the University of Wisconsin in cooperation first with the Smithsonian Institution and then the U.S. Army. Included are meteorological registers recording temperature, winds, cloud conditions, and barometer readings, 1853-1864, 1869-1887, 1903-1904; and diaries, 1878-1883, with data on rainfall, snowfall, frosts, and casual phenomena.

Language: English

URL to cite for this finding aid: http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.uw-whs-us0000v

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Acquisition Information

Presented by Eric R. Miller, September 4, 1943 and February 16, 1944.

U.S. Mss V Box   1-2	Monthly Meteorological Records, single sheets, 1853-1864, 1869-1878, and miscellaneous
	Monthly Meteorological Register
Box   3 Volume   1	1857 August-1861 October
Box   4 Volume   2	1881 July-1883 March; 1903 May-1904 December
Box   5 Volume   3	1883 August-1887 June
	Meteorological Diary Weather observations, 1878-1883, are available online.
Box   3 Volume   4	1878 September 20-1880 October 31
Box   3 Volume   5	1880 November-1882 September
Box   3 Volume   6	1882 October-1883 March
	Weekly Meteorological Register
Box   4 Volume   7	1878 September 29-1880 January 3
Box   4 Volume   8	1880 January 3-1881 November 30