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Re: Newspaper morgue



You may wish to contact Shelley Sweeney for at least one example of a fairly
complete newspaper photo morgue being housed in a university archives setting.

The University of Manitoba Libraries
Winnipeg, MB, Canada R3T 2N2, 1-204-474-9881
Email: shelley_sweeney@umanitoba.ca

     Winnipeg Tribune

                Winnipeg Tribune fonds, 1930's-1980's

                243 m of textual records and graphic materials

                Mss 24

                The Winnipeg Tribune, one of western Canada's oldest newspapers,
 was
                founded in 1890 by L.R. Richardson and D.L. McIntyre who scraped
                together $7000 to take over the press and premises of the old
Winnipeg
                Sun. Struggling under the restraints of outdated equipment and
no
                telegraph service, the new paper survived and with the aid of
Winnipeg's
                growing population and economic boom fast became a viable
alternative
                to the rival Winnipeg Free Press. While primarily regarded as an
                independent liberal paper covering local events and
personalities, the
                Tribune also reported on national and international news. After
90 years
                of operation, the Winnipeg Tribune ceased publication
unexpectedly in
                August of 1980 as a result of negotiations between competing
newspaper
                chains.

                The collection contains the Tribune research collection (or
`morgue' files)
                as created by the newspaper's staff consisting of personality
files and
                subject folders of clippings from the 1930's to the 1980's. Many
 of the
                subject files have been microfilmed by the university for
preservation
                purposes. There are approximately 2,500,000 clippings, divided
over some
                11,000 different subject categories and 60,000 personality
folders.
                Together they provide ready-made collections of people and
events in
                Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, and abroad. The collection is also
well
                documented pictorially with over 500,000 photographs. A
typewritten
                alphabetical index to the Tribune collection is available.

                167 reels of microfilm (available for purchase in whole or in
part)

                Donated by the Thomson Newspapers Ltd., 1981

                Open to all researchers

                Finding aid available


Informatively,

Robert D. Hamilton, M.L.I.S.
Archivist
The Woodbridge Company Limited
Suite 2400, 65 Queen Street West
Toronto, Ontario
M5H 2M8
robh@woodbridge.com
416-364-8700 ext.355

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