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Thomas Walter Swan papers

 Collection
Call Number: MS 1369

Scope and Contents

Correspondence, speeches, photographs, awards, clippings, and miscellanea documenting the professional career of Thomas Walter Swan, a lawyer, judge, and dean of the Yale Law School, 1916-1927.

Dates

  • 1918-1976

Creator

Conditions Governing Access

The materials are open for research.

Conditions Governing Use

Copyright status for collection materials is unknown. Transmission or reproduction of materials protected by U.S. Copyright Law (Title 17, U.S.C.) beyond that allowed by fair use requires the written permission of the copyright owners. Works not in the public domain cannot be commercially exploited without permission of the copyright owners. Responsibility for any use rests exclusively with the user.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Transferred from the Yale Law School Library, 1983.

Arrangement

Arranged aphabetically by topic.

Extent

2 Linear Feet

Language of Materials

English

Catalog Record

A record for this collection is available in Orbis, the Yale University Library catalog

Persistent URL

https://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/mssa.ms.1369

Additional Description

Overview

Correspondence, speeches, photographs, awards, clippings, and miscellanea documenting the professional career of Thomas Walter Swan, a lawyer, judge, and dean of the Yale Law School, 1916-1927.

Biographical / Historical

Thomas Walter Swan was born on December 20, 1877, in Norwich, Connecticut. He served as dean of the Yale Law School from 1916 to 1927, as a judge on the United States Circuit Court of Appeals, and as a member of the Yale Corporation. Swan died in New Haven, Connecticut, on July 15, 1975.

Subjects

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Finding Aid & Administrative Information

Title
Preliminary Guide to the Thomas Walter Swan Papers
Status
Under Revision
Author
compiled by Robert Raffeld
Date
Circa 1980s
Description rules
Finding Aid Created In Accordance With Manuscripts And Archives Processing Manual
Language of description note
Finding aid written in English.

Repository Details

Part of the Manuscripts and Archives Repository

http://www.library.yale.edu/mssa/
Contact:
Yale University Library
P.O. Box 208240
New Haven CT 06520-8240 US
(203) 432-1735
(203) 432-7441 (Fax)

Location

Sterling Memorial Library
Room 147
120 High Street
New Haven, CT 06511

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