Scope and Contents
The papers consist chiefly of family correspondence, photographs, and journals, and include a small amount of financial records. Family correspondence includes letters from Leonard H. Swett to his parents (Leonard Swett and Laura Swett, nee Quigg) that document his travels in the American West in the 1880s, when he worked with the United States Geological Survey. He was stationed at, among other locations, Fort Wingate, New Mexico, BQ (Barbecue) Ranch, Indian Territory, and Albuquerque, New Mexico. Other family papers include records of genealogical research. Personal papers include journals that document Swett's (and an unidentified author's, possibly Swett's) travels in the American West. Photographs, dating chiefly from the late 19th century, depict Leonard H. Swett and family members.
Dates
- 1867-1934
Creator
Conditions Governing Access
The materials are open for research.
Conditions Governing Use
The Leonard H. Swett Papers is the physical property of the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University. Literary rights, including copyright, belong to the authors or their legal heirs and assigns. For further information, consult the appropriate curator.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Purchased from Michael Vinson on the Arthur Corbitt Hoskins Memorial Fund, 2005.
Arrangement
Organized into five series: I. Family Correspondence and Family Papers, 1867-1934. II. Business Papers, 1876-1929. III. Personal Papers, 1882-1898. IV. Photographs, 1874-1900. V. Other Papers, 1876-1885.
Extent
2.3 Linear Feet (7 boxes)
Language of Materials
English
Catalog Record
A record for this collection is available in Orbis, the Yale University Library catalog
Persistent URL
Abstract
The papers consist chiefly of family correspondence, photographs, and journals, and include a small amount of financial records. Family correspondence includes letters from Leonard H. Swett to his parents (Leonard Swett and Laura Quigg Swett) that document his travels in the American West in the 1880s, when he worked with the United States Geological Survey. He was stationed at, among other locations, Fort Wingate, New Mexico, BQ (Barbecue) Ranch, Indian Territory, and Albuquerque, New Mexico. Other family papers include records of genealogical research. Personal papers include journals that document Swett's (and an unidentified author's, possibly Swett's) travels in the American West. Photographs, dating chiefly from the late 19th century, depict Leonard H. Swett and family members.
Leonard H. Swett
Leonard Herbert Swett, son of Leonard Swett and Laura Quigg, was born in 1858 in Bloomington, Illinois and traveled extensively in the American West as a surveyor with the United States Geological Survey. He married Rose Maria Skillings (1864-1914) in 1889 and they had at least one child, Laura Rose Swett, born in 1897.
Processing Information
Former call number: Uncat MSS 1184
Collection are processed to a variety of levels, depending on the work necessary to make them usable, their perceived research value, the availability of staff, competing priorities, and whether or not further accruals are expected. The library attempts to provide a basic level of preservation and access for all collections, and does more extensive processing of higher priority collections as time and resources permit.
This collection received a basic level of processing, including rehousing and minimal organization, in 2012.
Information included in the Description of Papers note and Collection Contents section is drawn from information supplied with the collection and from an initial survey of the contents. Folder titles appearing in the contents list below are often based on those provided by the creator or previous custodian. Titles have not been verified against the contents of the folders in all cases. Otherwise, folder titles are supplied by staff during initial processing.
This finding aid may be updated periodically to account for new acquisitions to the collection and/or revisions in arrangement and description.
- Albuquerque (N.M.) -- Description and travel
- Fort Wingate (N.M.) -- Description and travel
- Geological Survey (U.S.)
- Indian Territory -- Description and travel
- New Mexico -- Description and travel
- Photographic prints -- United States -- 19th century
- Surveyors -- United States -- 19th century
- Surveyors -- West (U.S.)
- Surveyors -- West (U.S.) -- 19th century
- Sweet family
- Swett, Laura Quigg
- Swett, Leonard Herbet, 1859-
- Swett, Leonard, 1825-1889
- Title
- Guide to the Leonard H. Swett Papers
- Author
- by Lisa Conathan
- Date
- 2012
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description note
- Finding aid written in English.
Part of the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library Repository
Location
121 Wall Street
New Haven, CT 06511
Opening Hours
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