Summary Information

Title: Kuryer Polski Records
Inclusive Dates: 1907-1961

Creator:

• Kuryer Polski (Milwaukee, Wis.)

Call Number: Milwaukee Micro 29; Micro 881

Quantity: 1 reel of microfilm (35mm)

Repository:

Housed at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Libraries’ Archives Department / Milwaukee Area Research Center; owned by the Wisconsin Historical Society, Division of Library, Archives, and Museum Collections

Archival Locations:

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

UW-Milwaukee Libraries, Archives / Milwaukee Area Research Ctr. (Map)

Wisconsin Historical Society (Map)

Abstract:

Partial records of the first Polish language daily newspaper in the United States, founded in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in 1888, and of its founder, Michael Kruszka. Although the collection primarily documents the operation of the newspaper through minutes of board of directors meetings, 1915-1926; a scrapbook, 1907-1916; and subscriber lists, 1960-1961, there are a few letters written by Kruszka to Milwaukee Archbishop Sebastian Messmer which illustrate the lengthy conflict between Kruszka and the Roman Catholic clergy. The scrapbook also includes typewritten and printed directives to employees, office memoranda, payroll records, layout instructions, regulations, and policies. With Kruszka's papers are a photograph of him, other correspondence, articles of incorporation and by-laws of the Kuryer Polski, circulation statistics, subscription information, and advertising policies. Most of the material is in Polish. The collection was compiled by the donor, Szymon St. Deptula.

Language: English

URL to cite for this finding aid: http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.uw-whs-micr0881

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