E&E And IMA Subject Index

By Joe Park
Published on September 1, 1989
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Route 1, Box 54 Princeton, Wisconsin 54968

For the past ten years the writer has subscribed to, read and
indexed articles that have appeared in The Engineers and Engines
Magazine and in The Iron Men Album Magazine. This index has grown
to over 160 rubrics or categories with somewhere in the
neighborhood of 750 separate entries. Undoubtedly it reflects the
bias of the author toward steam engines and threshing machinery and
his preference for substantive articles i.e. ones that deal with
the history of manufacturing concerns and farm machinery. A glance
at the list of rubrics, however, will reveal that other categories
such as railroads, sorghum making, gas engines, sawmills, book
reviews and even letters to the editors have not been ignored. On
the other hand, obituaries (except in rare instances), reports on
shows (unless these contain what was judged to be pertinent
information), inquiries and rambling personal accounts for the most
part have been omitted.

The Index currently exists on 3×5 cards, usually with more than
one entry per card. The entries are neither alphabetized nor
arranged by date of publication. Consequently one must search
through each category; but that is precisely what one would be
expected to do.

Each entry takes the following form. Under the rubric Model one
will find:

John M. Chmiko: Letter E&E June-July 1988 P 27 Building
Model Spoke Wheels. IMA Jan-Feb 1983 P 18.

In the first instance, John Chmiko is the author of a letter
published in E & E (The Engineers and Engines Magazine): In the
case of letters to the editors the names of the writers are
included to facilitate location. The date refers to the issue of
the particular journal and is followed by the page on which the
letter is to be found. Full pagination is never provided.

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