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Series 1. Langan W. Swent (LWS) / Eleanor Herz Swent (EHS) personal and professional papers

Scope and Contents

Includes San Luis & Homestake Company mining material. See also correspondence & photograph series.
Box 4

LWS address books & planners 1970-1992

Box 4

2 audiocassettes (from LWS planners box)

Scope and Contents

Gulf Oil Corporation, Ralph L. Lewis, Jr. - Energy, Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow (The Hoffman Organization)
Sara Morabito, General Electric 9/79 ; Hugo Slorens, Bechtel 9/79
Box 5, folder 1

LWS Papers etc. (Eleanor Swent records of donations to archives)

Box 5, folder 2

Homestake Mining Co. 1877 memoir (photocopy of typed transcript)

Box 5, folder 3

Homestake, San Luis, other mining

Box 5, folder 4

LWS to Mrs. Robert Schirmer 1991 re: radiation exposure

Box 5, folder 5

LWS Blue Shield certificate of appreciation 1966

Box 5, folder 6-7

LWS, JWS bios, photos Geneva 1968, LWS employment & retirement

Box 5, folder 8

Stanford 1938

Box 5, folder 10

American Mining Congress - Langan W. Swent & Douglas Chambers comments re: radon daughter exposure, Northern Sweden

Box 8, folder 10

EHS Eleanor Writing

Box 9, folder 1

EHS personal ephemera

Box 12, folder 7

American Trust Company correspondence 1941-1955

Box 12, folder 8

American Trust Company accounting

Box 13, folder 10

Andujar, Jose - letter to LWS 1983

Box 14, folder 1

LWS personal ephemera

Box 14, folder 2

Cards, Mexico

Box 14, folder 4

Mining maps, charts, other items

Box 14, folder 5

Atomic Energy - LWS article

Box 14, folder 6

Mexican Codex (Gordon Barry donation correspondence etc. 1985-1991)

Box 14, folder 9

Aviation History in Mexico - Gordon Barry, Time-Life Books etc.

Box 16, folder 1

Passports, Legal Correspondence & Papers

Box 16, folder 2

LWS Bios

Box 16, folder 3

ROHO (Regional Oral History Office) Oral History

Box 16, folder 4

LWS Rotary

Box 16, folder 5

McLaughlin, Don

Box 16, folder 6

Aspinall, Wayne Letter to LWS 1971

Box 16, folder 7

LWS - Transuranium & Uranium Registers

Box 16, folder 8

LWS - Mexico

Box 18, folder 3

Bill Harlan article on Homestake sent from India 2009

Box 18, folder 4

Grants, New Mexico phone book, Grants Daily Beacon July 10, 1959

Box 18, folder 6

Who's Who

Box 18, folder 7

GOP 1959-1961

Box 19, folder 14

LWS Senes Consultants

Box 19, folder 15

LWS clippings & photos 1957-1966

Box 19, folder 16

Homestake Manager of Environmental Affairs memo 1979

Box 19, folder 17

California Mining Association annual meeting 1979

Box 19, folder 18

Mortality Study of Homestake Underground Mine Workers draft 1983

Box 19, folder 19

Club Colonial circa 1948-1950

Box 20

Address books (5)

Box 20, folder 1

American Mining Congress

Box 20, folder 4

LWS Letter to New York Times 12-3-1979

Box 20, folder 5

Elements of Atomic Energy, Fundamentals of Radiation papers by LWS

Box 20, folder 6

U.S. Council for Energy Awareness

Box 20, folder 7

LWS Mexico Trip 1946

Box 20, folder 8

Tayoltita

Box 20, folder 10

Geneva Trip November 1968

Box 21, volume 1

United States Transuranium & Uranium Registries Annual Report 1993

Box 21, folder 2

Misc. Homestake & San Luis

Box 21, folder 3

1989 Earthquake photographs of freeway damage & John Dern memoir

Box 21, folder 9

Madrigal

Box 21, folder 10

Gordon Barry

Box 21, folder 11

Stock Exchange Club

Box 21, folder 12

Wild Goose Mining & Trading Co.

Box 22, folder 1

Durango, Colonial

Box 22, folder 2

Mexico Mining Guilds History

Box 22, folder 3-4

Mexico Mining History

Box 22, folder 5

Marian Lane Oral History 1995

Box 22, folder 9

Homestake History

Box 22, folder 10-12

Grants History, Newspaper, Politics

Box 22, folder 13

Judd, Winnie Ruth

Box 22, volume 14

Tayoltita - Centro Minero de las Quebradas

Box 25, folder 1

Stanford - Tau Beta Pi, Commencement program

Box 25, folder 2

Stanford Daily, LWS business manager cards, Financial Reports 1937, 1938

Box 25

Mining & Geology school work 1939-1941

Box 26, folder 1-2

San Luis Mining Company Metallurgical Reports etc. circa 1947-1952

Box 26, folder 4

Homestake mining - forms, UMW 1946 etc.

Box 26, folder 5

Mining ephemera (testing sieve catalog, first aid manual, reports/papers, etc.)

Box 26, folder 6

Joshua Hendy job application package

Box 30, folder 1

LWS address lists

Box 30, folder 2

Swent family ephemera (Kim Swent report card, writing exercises by children; framed EHS-LWS wedding announcement, framed photo of unidentified mother and child)

Box 31, folder 1

Homestake - Report 1931, Lehman Bros. Company Review 1975, Bulldog Mine report 1978, Sharp Bits issues 1957-1964, LWS letter to Chamber of Commerce of America Staff Advisor re: International Labor Organization 1969, etc.

Box 31, folder 2-3

Madrigal Project, Peru

Box 31, folder 4

Radon Daughters - Fundamentals of Radiation Talk

Box 31, folder 5

Lang's Papers for NRC-AMC

Box 31, folder 6

Elements of Atomic Energy - LWS Talk

Box 31, folder 7-9

Miscellaneous LWS Mining

Box 32, folder 4

American Trust Company credit slips 1942-1947

Box 34

EHS portraits

Box 35

EHS (as Eleanor M. Herz) diaries & unused autograph book

Box 35, folder 2

EHS fiction typescripts drafts

Box 35, folder 2

EHS letter from Harper & Brothers editor 1946

Box 35, folder 3

EHS Wellesley poetry book and 1948 calendar

 

Series 2. Langan & Eleanor Swent correspondence (personal & professional)

Box 5, folder 11

LWS Homestake correspondence 1955

Box 7, folder 5

EHS (Eleanor H. Swent) letters, various dates

Box 7, folder 6-10

EHS letters to parents 1959, 1964-1967

Box 8, folder 1-9

EHS letters to parents 1968-1984

Box 13, folder 1

Chain Gang (EHS, Philip M. Klauber, David Swanberg, Warren Buell) 1998-2001

Box 13, folder 2

Phil Klauber 1991-2003

Box 13, folder 3

Family (mostly from LWS to parents) 1947-1955

Box 13, folder 4

Lee (EHS) correspondence 1945-1955

Box 14, folder 7

LWS Homestake Mining Co. correspondence 1957-1991 (HR matters)

Box 14, folder 8

LWS miscellaneous correspondence 1982-1986

Box 14, folder 10

LWS Correspondence 1953-1987

Box 15, folder 1

LWS Mexico Correspondence 1954-1975 (almost all in Spanish)

Box 15, folder 2

BOMSA Correspondence, etc. (Banco Occidental de Mexico, S.A.)

Box 15, folder 4

Misc. Central & South America Correspondence 1970-1976

Box 15, folder 5

Lee Correspondence (family) 1956-1985

Box 15, folder 6

Misc. Europe correspondence 1969-1991

Box 15, folder 7

Family Correspondence 1956-

Box 15, folder 8

Klauber, Dern & Calderwood Correspondence 1941-1988

Box 18, folder 9

Personal 1961-1966 (Misc. Greetings, Correspondence, Pix , Etc.)

Box 31, folder 10

Personal 1966-1968

Box 18, folder 10

Personal 1967

Box 18, folder 11

Personal 1968

Box 19, folder 1

Personal 1969

Box 19, folder 2

Personal 1970

Box 19, folder 3

Personal 1971

Box 19, folder 4

Correspondence 1961-1971

Box 31, folder 11

Personal 1974

Box 19, folder 5

Personal 1975

Box 19, folder 6

Personal 1976

Box 19, folder 7

Personal 1977

Box 19, folder 8

Personal 1978

Box 19, folder 9

Personal 1979

Box 19, folder 10

Personal 1980

Box 19, folder 11

Personal 1981

Box 19, folder 12

Personal 1982

Box 19, folder 13

Personal 1983

Box 20, folder 2

Evans, Robley Correspondence

Box 20, folder 3

Morel, Bob & Evelyn Correspondence

Box 20, folder 11

LWS Chronfile 1983-1988 (draft outgoing correspondence, Homestake & personal)

Box 21, folder 4

LWS correspondence 1991

Box 26, folder 7

Correspondence to LWS re: Europe trip with photographs

Box 26, folder 8

Correspondence to LWS circa 1939-1952

Box 26, folder 8

Letter to LWS with Graf Zeppelin postmark August 1929

Box 27, folder 1

LWS correspondence 1939-1947

Box 27, folder 3

LWS letters/notes circa 1920s

Box 27, folder 4

LWS letters from Europe 1938

Box 27, folder 5

LWS letters to parents WWII

Box 28

EHS letters to parents circa 1958-1961

Box 29

EHS letters to parents circa 1958-1961

Box 30, folder 3-4

Miscellaneous correspondence - U.S.A. 1947-1955 (to & from LWS)

Box 30, folder 5

Miscellaneous correspondence - Mexico 1947-1955 (to & from LWS)

Box 30, folder 6

Lawrence F. Morel correspondence 1947-1956 (mostly San Luis Mine related)

Box 33

EHS letters to parents

Box 34

EHS letters to parents

Box 34

EHS letters to LWS 1947

Box 35

Postcards to EHS circa 1990-2013

 

Series 3. Langan & Eleanor Swent travel diaries, photographs, etc.

Box 5, folder 9

LWS Europe 1938 diaries

Box 11, folder 9

Mongolia 1999

Box 11, folder 10

England etc. photographs, 2002

Box 11, folder 11

South East Asia, New Zealand 1985

Box 12, folder 1

Scandinavia, Russia 1985

Box 12, folder 2

Peru, Nicaragua, Costa Rica 1975

Box 12, folder 3

Europe 1984

Box 12, folder 4

Southern Chile 1993

Box 12, folder 5

China photographs 2002

Box 12, folder 5

Spain 2004

Box 12, folder 6

London 1988, England 2001, Literary England 2002

Box 18, folder 1

Galapagos 1982

Box 18, folder 2

Europe 1959

Box 20, folder 9

Memoirs of 1966 Europe Trip (maps and souvenirs)

Box 22, folder 14

Arctic Circle certificates 1983

Box 22, folder 15

Journal of 1982 South America Trip - Langan & Lee Swent

Box 24, folder 1

1938 Trip ephemera (maps, souvenir postcards)

Scope and Contents

Belgium ; Bulgaria, Norway, etc. ; Mobilizační vyhláška (3 photos of Czech document) ; France ; Germany & Austria ; Italy ; Tunisia, Turkey ; UK
Box 24, folder 2

Souvenir postcards - U.S., Mexico, Cuba

Box 32, folder 1

People-To-People Tour 1966

Box 32, folder 2-3

Europe trip 1984

 

Series 4. Mexico - Guarisamey District History

Scope and Contents

Photocopied research material in English & Spanish.
Box 6, folder 1

Everardo Gamiz publications

Box 6, folder 2

Discovery, Colonial Durango, Gallegos

Box 6, folder 3

Jesuit Missions, Decorme

Box 6, folder 4

History of St. Durango, Reyna

Box 6, folder 5

Daniel M. Burns

Box 6, folder 6

Pioneer Jesuits in Northern Mexico, Dunne

Box 6, folder 7

Mining Guild of New Spain

Box 6, folder 8

Congressional Linrary

Box 6, folder 9

LWS research ephemera

Box 6, folder 10

Pedro Lares Notes 1937

Box 6, folder 11

Historic Mines of Mexico - Dahlgren

Box 6, folder 12

Durango Silver Mines - Statement of Property 1865

Box 6, folder 13

Weil & La Abra Claims

Box 6, folder 14

Northern Jesuit Mexican Missions 1751-1757, Burrus

Box 6, folder 15

Durango Grafico, Hernandez 1903 Extracts

Box 6, folder 16

Haptonstall articles

Box 6, folder 17

Geographical, Historical, Biographical Dictionary - Saint of Durango

Box 6, folder 18

Guide to the Franciscan Archive v.1

Box 6, folder 19

Bulletin of the National Library of Mexico 1951

Box 6, folder 20

Candelaria & Durango Mining Co. Statement 1904

Box 6, folder 21

A Trip to Tayoltita, Pierce 1949

Box 7, folder 1

Mexico v.2 Ward 1829

Box 7, folder 2

Misc. Magazine Notes 1910-1916

Box 7, folder 3

Perogordo Report 1937 [some original documents]

Box 7, folder 4

Tayoltita, San Dimas

 

Series 5. Langan Swent, Navy WWII

Box 15, folder 3

LCT Crew Correspondence (WWII veterans), circa 1963-1991

Box 16, folder 9

LWS Diary - Hoover Institution 1993-1994

Box 16, folder 10

LWS Diary, Copyright, Naval Institute Correspondence

Box 17

Personal Diary of Langan W. Swent January 1, 1943-September 25, 1944. Copyright Langan W. Swent 1966

Box 18, folder 8

Organization - U.S. Navy

Box 21, folder 5-8

WWII/Navy original documents, photographs, reunions, correspondence, etc.

Box 36, folder 1

Packet of copy prints and photocopies - for publication?

Box 36

LCT Notes (notebooks)

Box 36

Watch Officer's Guide

Box 36

LCT (5)-10 Log

Box 36

Shells- U.S. 20mm, German 20mm (2cm)

 

Series 6. Swent/Langan/Mendenhall papers

Box 5, folder 12

Ursula Langan ancestry - California Genealogical Society

Box 13, folder 5

Ursula Langan Swent memoirs (typescript) 1914

Box 13, folder 6

George Washington Langan

Box 13, folder 7

Langan/Mendenhall

Box 13, folder 8

Livermore Heritage

Box 13, folder 9

Swent/Swint

Box 18, folder 5

James Waterman Swent (JWS) Michigan Tech donation record 2005

 

Series 7. Herz/Kimpston papers

Box 22, folder 6

Nathaniel Herz Oral History 1973 (transcripts and three audiocassettes)

Box 22, folder 7-8

Janet Herz Oral History

Box 23, folder 1

Clippings, publications, ephemera

Box 23, folder 2

Janet Herz Bio, Obit, Audio interview (cassette), etc.

Box 23, folder 3

Associated American Artists

Box 23, folder 4

House in Lead

Box 23, folder 5

Adams Museum

Box 23, folder 6

Autographs (correspondence etc.)

Box 23, folder 8

Cards (&1 photo)

Box 23, folder 9

Farm Correspondence with Layton

Box 23, folder 10

Hearst Kindergarten

Box 23, folder 11

Iowa State Historical Society re: Farm Records

Box 23, folder 12

School of Mines

Box 23, folder 13

Donations From Estate - Yale

Box 23, folder 14

Carrizo Enterprises, Inc. 1958-1959

Box 23, folder 15

Ruby Hill Zinc Tailing (Hecla) 1966

Box 35, folder 1

Ephemera & photographs from Martha & Frank Kimpston postcards

Box 35

Martha & Frank Kimpston postcards, circa 1911-1914

Box 33

Nathaniel & Janet Herz personal ephemera

 

Series 8. Gschwind papers

Box 1, folder 2

Roosevelt Memorial Association

Box 1, folder 3

G. Gschwind pictures (photographs, some postcards)

Box 1, folder 4

Photograph portraits, Sutter Bros. tobacco promotional booklet (Adolph Sutter married into Gschwind family)

Box 1, folder 5

Remi Gschwind passport, voting, & death documents, clippings, photographs

Box 2, folder 1

Alice Daughters of the American Revolution clippings & letters

Box 2, folder 2

Clara Gschwind Richards photograph portraits, autograph book, etc.

Box 37, folder 1

Gschwind/Swent family tree etc.

Box 37, folder 3

Material for genealogical research (newspaper clippings, letters & postcards, California Midwinter Fair souvenir ticket 1894)

Box 37, folder 4

German & French letters, notebooks, etc.

 

Series 9. Gschwind - Alice & Ru (Rudolph) honeymoon postcards, diaries, travel ephemera circa 1902-1903

Box 2, folder 3

Souvenir postcards (unsent)

Box 2, folder 4

Travel guidebooks - Switzerland

Box 3, folder 1

Travel guidebooks - Germany, France, Italy

Box 3, folder 2

Travel guidebooks & photographs - Japan

Box 3, folder 2

Union Pacific Overland Mail guidebook/notebook 1902

Box 3, folder 3

Travel receipts, calling cards, etc.

Box 3, folder 4

Travel receipts, calling cards, etc. - China & Japan

Box 3, folder 5

Photographs and photo albums of France, Germany, Switzerland, Japan, Sri Lanka, & Egypt

Box 3, folder 6

Souvenir photographs - Italy

Box 3

Trip letters to Schwinds and Fraziers

Box 37, folder 2

Gschwind honeymoon diaries

 

Series 10. Photographs

Box 1, folder 1

Gschwind photographs

Box 4

Swent photo portraits

Box 9, folder 2

James W. Swent & Ursula Langan Swent photographs

Box 9, folder 3

EHS baby pictures album

Box 9, folder 3

Photo album - Tayoltita, Mexico mostly circa 1927-1928

Box 9, folder 4

Tayoltita photographs mostly circa 1938-1939

Box 9, folder 5

Tayoltita, LWS photographs

Box 9, folder 6

LWS photographs

Box 10, folder 1

James Swent & Ursula Langan Swent portrait photographs (larger)

Box 11, folder 1

Chester Langan portrait and sketch 1968

Box 11, folder 2

Elsie Burns portraits

Box 11, folder 3

Amy Ana Waterman Swent portraits

Box 11, folder 4

Rudolph Gschwind, Alice Mott Frazier

Box 11, folder 5

Grandpa William Mendenhall, Grandma Mary Allen Mendenhall

Box 11, folder 6

George Langan; Phillip M. Langan; Nell Hadley Lusinger (?); Clara Mattile Gschwind (?); Aunt Ella (?); Philip Langan, Florence Block, Ursula Langan, Chet Langan

Box 11, folder 7

Unidentified 19th-century portraits (San Francisco & San Jose photographers)

Box 11, folder 8

Monica Escutia and family pics

Box 14, folder 3

Swent photographs & negatives, Mexico, Alaska

Box 23, folder 7

Camera (owners manuals, typed notes re: photographs)

Box 24, folder 3

LWS photographs, Europe 1938 & Florida 1945

Box 24, folder 4

Photographs - portraits

Box 24, folder 5

LWS photographs - California trip, Europe, people, Mexico, etc.

Box 25, folder 1

LWS in group photos - Moses Brown baseball & football teams circa 1932

Box 26, folder 3

Mining and other photographs

Box 27, folder 2

LWS notes re: cameras, photographs

Box 35, folder 3

EHS-LWS wedding photo and small framed unidentified photos

Box 37, folder 3

Rudolph Gschwind photographs - Pyramids Egypt 1903, Mother's House at Metzerlen, Albert & Fraus Matille, Uncle Benedict

 

Series 11. Miscellaneous

Box 10, folder 2

Publications - Mexico & Southwest U.S.

Box 10, folder 3

Publications - China

Box 37, folder 6

Articles, fliers, notes, Stevens-Stephens genealogy, etc.

Box 37, folder 7

Metal sign in Russian and Croatian(?), LWS stencils, 1912 Livestock Exposition ribbon, PEO Sisterhood Convention ribbon 1953

Box 37, folder 8

Publications

Box 37, folder 9

Bill Mahoney interview (William P. Mahoney Ninth Judicial Circuit oral history 1988, sent by Gerald K. Smith to Tina Byrd)