Guide to Wisconsin newspapers, 1833-1957

The Introduction of this 300-page volume is a short history of the newspaper industry in Wisconsin. The remainder of the book is organized by counties, with every known newspaper listed, including beginning and ending days of operation, name changes, editors, and archives or libraries where copies were held at the time this directory was published. The author mentioned that the State Historical Society in Madison had the most extensive collection of newspapers in the state. Many of these were on microfilm.