The records of the Kuryer Polski were assembled by Szymon St. Deptula and retain the donor's arrangement into four sections: minutes of board meetings, scrapbooks, papers of Michael Kruszka, and subscriber lists. Most of the material dates from 1907 to the early 1920's.
The volume of handwritten and typed minutes of board of directors meetings provides information regarding the operation of the newspaper and the Kuryer Publishing Company. Interspersed within the minutes are also news clippings, notices from the management, lists of stockholders, copies of ballots and listings of the results of elections of officers, and occasional annual financial reports. Most of the information is in Polish.
Following the minutes is a scrapbook, like the volume of minutes probably compiled by the donor, consisting of directives to employees, office memoranda, printed and typewritten regulations of the workplace, and instructions to foremen and printers. Most of these notices were signed by Kruszka, and date from 1907 to 1916. Also included are occasional payroll records and statements of editorial and advertising policy.
The papers of Michael Kruszka include a photograph, personal correspondence, a copy of the articles of incorporation and by-laws of the Kuryer Polski (1912), fragmentary printed items concerning Kuryer Polski subscriber statistics, advertising policy, and regulations, a few legal documents with correspondence, and miscellany. Of particular interest is Kruszka's twenty-three page letter dated June 13, 1907 to Milwaukee Archbishop Sebastian Messmer, in which Kruszka replied to the Archbishop's attacks on the Kuryer Polski, which led to his institution of a rival newspaper, Nowiny Polskie; his charges that Kruszka's daughter was attending a non-Polish, Protestant school; and his criticism of Kruszka's brother, Reverend Waclaw Kruszka of Ripon.
The final portion of the papers consist of galley proofs of the Kuryer Polski's subscriber lists, circa 1960-1961. The names on the lists are grouped by region of the United States and Canada, arranged roughly from east to west. Also included are addresses and the date of expiration of the subscription.
