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
Abstract
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.
- 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.
Part of the Manuscripts and Archives Repository
Yale University Library
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Location
Sterling Memorial Library
Room 147
120 High Street
New Haven, CT 06511