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Eleanor H. Swent papers, approximately 1970-1982.
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Eleanor H. Swent papers, approximately 1970-1982Creator/Contributor:
Swent, Eleanor H., creator, creator.Creator/Contributor:
Barry, Gordon SquireAbstract:
Writings, talks, correspondence with students, and iterations of her journal entries (Possibly used in her writings) from
Swent's time teaching English as a Second Language in the 1970's. Also includes 13 audiocasettes of a 1982 interview with
early aviator Gordon Squire Barry.
Date:
1970 (issued)Subject:
n-us-caEnglish language -- Study and teaching
English language -- Study and teaching
Swent, Eleanor H -- Archives
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COLLECTION STORED OFF-SITE: Advance notice required for use.
Gift of Eleanor Swent 2013.
Related collection: Vietnamese refugees in the East Bay : oral history transcript (BANC MSS 81/37 c).
Associated collection: Eleanor Herz Swent papers. Also located at: Wellesley College.
Eleanor Swent was born in Lead, South Dakota. She earned a degree from Wellesley College, an M.A. from Denver University,
and married Langan Swent, a mining engineer. In 1966 they moved to California and from 1967-1986, Swent taught English as
a Second Language to adults in Chinatown in Oakland. She worked as an interviewer at the Regional Oral History Office (now
the Oral History Center) at the Bancroft Library from 1985 to 2005. She also authored "Asians Refugees in America," based
in part on interviews with her English Language students in 2011 and "One Shot for Gold" in 2021.
Eleanor H. Swent papers, BANC MSS 2013/194, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
In English.
Type:
Archives.Diaries.
Interviews.
Interviews.
Diaries.
Physical Description:
print
#1.35 (1 1
Language:
English
Origin:
CaliforniaCopyright Note:
COLLECTION STORED OFF-SITE: Advance notice required for use.