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Listed below are unique alternative press collections that are available on microfilm. There is a specific print guide for each collection. The print guides provide the magazine title, range of holdings, and microfilm reel number. There is no subject indexing.

Another way to access the collections below is by using the Journals of Dissent and Social Change bibliography by John Liberty. There are multiple copies of this guide at 2 NORTH Reference PNZ 6944 S55 L5 1993.  Consider this source as a 'master list' to the microfilm collections listed below. One can look up a title in this bibliography and it will indicate in which collection the title will be found; as well as the range of holdings an microfilm reel number. Then all one needs to do is note in which microfilm cabinet the specific collection is located. This information is noted below after the title of the collection.

Microfilm Collections and Guides

1.  Alternative Press Collection - Located in Microfilm Cabinet 1
Unit 1- 1986; 36 reels total
Unit 6 - 1991; 49 reels total
Unit 7 - 1992; 60 reels total
Unit 8 - 1993; 43 reels total

2. Herstory - Located in Microfilm Cabinet 10, 90 reels total

3. Radical Pamphlet Literature: a collection from the Tamiment Library, 1817-1970 - Located in Microform Cabinets 74-75; call number 8138; 90 reels total.

4. Right Wing Collection of the University of Iowa Libraries - Located in Microfilm Cabinets 22-23; 177 reels total

5. Socialist Collections in the Taminent Library, 1872-1956 - Located in Microfilm Cabinet 71; call number 362; 68 reels total.

6. Socialist Party of America Papers, 1897-1963 - Located in Microfilm Cabinet 71; call number 361; 142 reels total.

7. Underground Newspaper Collection - Located in Microfilm Caninets 37-38; 476 reels total

  • Print Guide: Underground Press Collection; Listing of Contents 1963-1985 located at 2 North Microfilm Coll. PNZ 6944 U5 U56
  • This collection has two supplements:
    • Underground Press Collection Hoover Institution Supplement; Microfilm Cabinet 38; 16 reels total. Print guide located at 2 North Microfilm Coll. PNZ 6944 U5 U562
    • Underground Newspaper Collection Guide to the University of Missouri Supplement; Microfilm Cabinet 38: 9 reels total. Print guide located at 2 North Microfilm Coll. PNZ 6944 U5 U563
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