Acknowledgements

[Updated May 15, 2024]

Countless kind people–historians, librarians, archivists, colleagues, friends and family members–assisted me with this project.
 
This bibliography and collection would not have been possible without them and is the better because of their assistance and advice. There are too many to thank by name, but I owe a special debt of gratitude to
  • the archivists and librarians at the State Historical Society of Iowa in Iowa City, IA, for introducing me to handwritten newspapers (notably the Quarterly Visitor) and helping me with my initial research into this fascinating cultural phenomenon;
  • the late Dr. Carolyn S. Dyer and Dr. John Erickson, professors emerita/-us, School of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of Iowa, for their guidance and encouragement in my initial studies of handwritten papers as a graduate student under their direction;
  • the literally hundreds of archivists across North America, Europe, Australia, and New Zealand, a who gave of their time and expertise to help locate and identify manuscript newspapers in their collections;
  • daughter Hannah Grieser for carefully logging much of the raw material I had collected into its present annotated bibliographic form; and
  • Dr. Michael Ray Smith for his own research into handwritten newspapers in North Carolina, published in Free Press in Freehand, his enthusiasm for the genre, and for prodding me to get back to this project (after many years of neglect and administrative diversions). 
Thanks to my colleagues and friends at
  • Reformed Evangelical Seminary (Oregon)
  • Nehemiah Gateway University (Albania)
  • New Saint Andrews College (Idaho)
  • Potchefstroom University for Christian Higher Education (South Africa)
  • University of Warsaw (Poland)
  • Egerton University (Kenya)
  • University of Idaho (Idaho)
  • Gonzaga University (Washington)

and others who helped and encouraged me along the way more than they will ever know.

Most of all, thanks to my wife Beverlee for her decades of encouragement and patience while I searched through countless dusty archival haystacks around the world for these journalistic needles.

Funding and Support

Financial, staff, and resource support for this project has been generously provided by the following organizations over the years:

  • The John Calhoun Smith Memorial Fund of the University of Idaho, Moscow, Idaho USA, which funded several grants (1988, 1990, and 1994) to support this project’s archival search at libraries across North America, historical and contextual research, and cataloging and documentary analysis
  • The Canadian Consulate for a Faculty Enrichment Grant, 1988, for the study of Canadian media in Vancouver, Edmonton, Toronto, Ottawa and Montreal
  • The School of Journalism and Mass Communication of the University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA USA, for a John F. Murray Travel Grant and a John F. Murray Award for Excellence in Teaching and Research, 1980
  • The School of Communication of the University of Idaho, Moscow, ID USA, which provided staff assistance for the many mailings, hours of indexing and cataloging, and general support of my research from 1984-2000
  • The State Historical Society of Iowa, Iowa City, IA USA, for introducing me to their handwritten newspapers and helping with my research which was published, in part, in Journalism History. Thanks too for SHSI’s invitation to present my earliest newspaper research in a keynote address “Old News: Using Newspapers in Pursuit of the Past” to the Iowa Newspaper Project Conference: Pilot Project for the National Newspaper Preservation Project, funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, Des Moines, IA, 1984, and
  • The Kosciuszko Foundation, New York, NY USA, for funding my media research travel to East Central Europe in 1995 that gave me access to state and university archives with handwritten newspapers in Poland, the Czech Republic, and Hungary, and

Thanks to all.

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