Access Restrictions

There are no access restrictions on the materials, and the collection is open to all members of the public in accordance with state law.

This collection does not transfer and must be used in the UWM Libraries' Archives Dept.

Researchers will be presented with one folder at a time. Archives staff will confirm the contents of each folder at the time of each usage. Archives staff: see the Key to Folder Contents in this finding aid for terms used in the inventory of original documents in the collection. (Modern copies were not included in a folder's total page count).

Use Restrictions

The researcher assumes full responsibility for conforming with the laws of libel, privacy, and copyright which may be involved in the use of this collection (Wisconsin Statutes 19.21-19.39).

The Archives does not hold the copyright to any of the materials in the Little Review magazine or the Little Review records. The Archives does not have specific information on who holds the copyright to any of the materials. The Archives will provide researchers with fair-use copies of materials from the collection, but it cannot and will not authorize, license, or control any specific uses of the materials. Copyright information may be available from:

Copyright Office
Room LM401
James Madison Memorial Building
101 Independence Ave., S.E.
Washington, D.C. 20540

Acquisition Information

The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Library purchased the Little Review records in 1966 from Michael Currer-Briggs, a British manuscripts dealer. Currer-Briggs was acting for the estate of Jane Heap, who controlled the Little Review magazine at its demise in 1929, and kept the office files until her death in 1964.

Processing Information

Mark A. Vargas reprocessed the collection in March 1992 at the Archives. A page count and folder inventory was completed in Summer, 2008 (Ellen Engseth supervised).