Can anyone help me find a library which has copies of the National
Police Gazette from 1910 to 1912?  Many libraries have microfilm of
the issues from 1845 to 1906, but it seems that later issues (it was
published until 1977) have not been microfilmed.

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Request for Question Clarification by hummer-ga on 29 Jan 2005 11:06 PST

Hi winkley,

I have been able to find thirteen issues of the National Police
Gazette, published in 1910 - 1912. These are the original paper
versions (not on microfilm) and are being stored in a box in a
library.

The thirteen issues are:
April 23, 1910
May 14, 1910
June 4, 1910 
Jun 11, 1910
June 18, 1910
August 20, 1910
August 27, 1910
December 16, 1911
July 6, 1912
August 10, 1912
August 17, 1912
October 26, 1912
November 9, 1912

Please let me know if you would like me to post the information as an answer. 
hummer

Hi again, winkley,

Found them!  The William L. Clements Library at The University of
Michigan is holding all of your issues (the original paper versions,
not microfilm) except two from 1910. You can search the Library
Catalog at the University of Michigan online using MIRLYN.

MIRLYN Search Form:
http://mirlyn.lib.umich.edu/F/9PQ8LBEAR664PTGX9RYQMKBKDPXRPREEE8NC53UPISB63HP4DQ-01541?func=file&file_name=find-b

Choose Journal/Serial Name Word(s) and type in Police Gazette.
Click on Police Gazette.
Click on the link "What Libraries Have".

Owning Location 	 William L. Clements | WR
Library has 	1-2, 32-87, 90-107, 109-140 [1845-1932 dates]
http://mirlyn.lib.umich.edu/F/9PQ8LBEAR664PTGX9RYQMKBKDPXRPREEE8NC53UPISB63HP4DQ-01230?func=item-global&doc_library=MIU01&doc_number=004607882&year=&volume=&sub_library=

According to our calculations, you need Vols. 96, No. 1690 - Vols.
101, No. 1846. You'll see at the following link that the only two they
are lacking between Nos. 1690 - 1846 are Nos. 1703 and 1707.

From 1878, library lacks whole no. 1-32, 77, 119-136, 138, 157, 451,
492, 693-694, 904-915, 918-921, 923-926, 928-938, 944-950, 952-954,
956, 1063-1066, 1113-1115, 1168, 1293, 1438, 1440, 1455-1457,
1462-1533, 1703, 1707, 1856, 2003-2029, 2031-2059, 2160-2163, 2290,
2293, 2608-2609, 2616-2629.
http://mirlyn.lib.umich.edu/F/9PQ8LBEAR664PTGX9RYQMKBKDPXRPREEE8NC53UPISB63HP4DQ-00989?func=full-set-set&set_number=526152&set_entry=000002&format=999

Contact:
William L. Clements Library
The University of Michigan
909 S. University Ave.
Ann Arbor, Mich. 48109-1190
734-764-2347
Fax: 734-647-0716 
http://www.clements.umich.edu/Mail.html

One note of interest is that The University of Michigan is responsible
for producing the earlier microfilm versions.

Additional Links:

Illustrated Clements Library
Summer 2001 Duplicate Sale
Lot 100 - 149
...see Lot 120
...view image
http://www.clements.umich.edu/dup/indx3.html

The University of Notre Dame has these:

           Vol 96, no 1706 (Apr 23, 1910)
           Vol 96, no 1709 (May 14, 1910)
           Vol 96, no 1712 (Jun 4, 1910) 
           Vol 96, no 1713 (Jun 11, 1910)
           Vol 96, no 1714 (Jun 18, 1910)
           Vol 97, no 1723 (Aug 20, 1910)
           Vol 97, no 1724 (Aug 27, 1910)
           Vol 99, no 1792 (Dec 16, 1911)
           Vol 101, no 1821 (Jul 6, 1912)
           Vol 101, no 1826 (Aug 10, 1912)
           Vol 101, no 1827 (Aug 17, 1912)
           Vol 101, no 1837 (Oct 26, 1912)
           Vol 101, no 1839 (Nov 9, 1912)

Sports Research Collection
University Libraries of Notre Dame.
http://www.sports.nd.edu/Boxing/polgaz.html

Location:   The Joyce Sports Research Collection includes materials
located throughout Hesburgh Library. The Collection is administered
from the Department of Special Collections, 102 Hesburgh Library,
located at the west end of the library's first-floor concourse.
Curator:   George Rugg
Address:   Joyce Sports Research Collection
102 Hesburgh Library
University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN 46556-5629
Phone:   (574) 631-6506
Fax:   (574) 631-6308
Email:    George.K.Rugg.1@nd.edu
Hours:   Those wishing to consult Joyce materials in the Department of
Special Collections may do so between 9:00 AM and 5:00 PM, Monday
through Friday (except for the week between Christmas and New Year's).
Patrons travelling to South Bend who anticipate spending significant
time in Special Collections are requested to inform the curator in
advance. Those wishing to consult sports materials outside Special
Collections (i.e., in the circulating collection or in Current
Periodicals/Microtext) may generally do so evenings and weekends as
well as weekdays.
http://www.sports.nd.edu/nameandnum/

We were happy to find these for you. If you have any questions, please
post a clarification request *before* closing/rating my answer and
I'll be happy to reply.

Thank you,
hummer & co.

Our search was finally successful using the following Google Search Terms.

 "police gazette" site:.edu
://www.google.ca/search?as_q=&num=100&hl=en&btnG=Google+Search&as_epq=police+gazette&as_oq=&as_eq=&lr=&as_ft=i&as_filetype=&as_qdr=all&as_occt=any&as_dt=i&as_sitesearch=.edu&safe=images

Click on:
Summer 1999 Michigan Today---Criminals? Book Them!

Click on:
http://www.clements.umich.edu

Click on:
Search MIRLYN

Your answer, which came within 24 hours of my posting the question,
was detailed, accurate and superb.  I had independently contacted the
Library of Congress, who wrote back to say they had no idea where I
could look, but that were possibly 100 libraries I could try.  And I
contacted  a library identified by the New York Public Library as
holding the issues I need - but still haven't heard back from them.  I
have already been on the phone with the University of Michigan, and
now can proceed with my research!  Thanks a million!  I will
definitely use google answer again!

Dear winkley,

Thank you so much for your kind note, rating, and generous tip - that
is very nice of you. Also, we appreciated hearing about your own
searches and how you made out with them.  Yes, your National Police
Gazettes have been difficult to track down but we knew they had to be
somewhere!

Bob has asked me to post the following links for you as he thought you
may find them useful at some point.

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UTexas description:
Ref: Center for American History, The University of Texas at Austin
Guide to Using Newspaper Collections:
http://www.cah.utexas.edu/using/guidetoNP.html

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Ref: ColumbiaU | Archives and Manuscript Collections | finding aids:
The RLIN AMC File
Archives USA
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/eguides/speccol.html

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...directory and links to state and national repositories -- you must go
to each site to search for title holdings.
...note mention of OCLC Db access via dedicated terminals.

United States Newspaper Program Participants:
http://www.neh.gov/projects/usnp.html

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Ref: Frank Leslie's "The Days' Doings" - 
Scandalous Pictorial News in Gilded Age New York
http://web.gc.cuny.edu/ashp/jbrown/daysdoings/default.htm

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A geographic directory of Repositories of Primary Sources:
http://www.uidaho.edu/special-collections/Other.Repositories.html

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SIRIS main:
http://www.siris.si.edu/

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NY State Newspaper Project  Research Guide:
http://www.nysl.nysed.gov/nysnp/refsources.htm

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WorldCat (OCLC Bibliographic Database)
http://www.virtualref.com/_verifier/s19.htm

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see:
CRL (via telnet) 
...didn't work for me.

Catalogs of Newspaper Holdings on the Internet:
http://www.loc.gov/rr/news/newscats.html

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The Library of Congress | Especially for Researchers | Research Centers
Newspaper & Current Periodical Reading Room
Newspaper Indexes/Archives/Morgues:
http://www.loc.gov/rr/news/oltitles.html

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Good luck with your research, we hope you find what you are looking for.
Sincerely,
hummer & co.