W. A. Swanberg papers, 1927-1992

Summary Information

At a Glance

Call No.:
MS#1219
Bib ID:
4078385 View CLIO record
Creator(s):
Swanberg, W. A (William Andrew), 1907-1992
Repository:
Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Physical Description:
36 linear feet (77 boxes)
Language(s):
English .
Access:
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Description

Scope and Content

Correspondence, manuscripts, notes, memoranda, notebooks, notecards, proofs, photographs, microfilms, and printed materials. The Papers include the manuscript research materials and correspondence for each of his books except his biography of Theodore Dreiser. Among the correspondents are William Benton, Bruce Catton, Carey McWilliams, Mrs. Fremont Older (Cora Miranda Baggerly Older), and Thornton Wilder.

Arrangement

Material is arranged into four series.

Using the Collection

Restrictions on Access

You will need to make an appointment in advance to use this collection material in the Rare Book and Manuscript Library reading room. You can schedule an appointment once you've submitted your request through your Special Collections Research Account.

This collection is located off-site. You will need to request this material at least three business days in advance to use the collection in the Rare Book and Manuscript Library reading room.

This collection has no restrictions.

Terms Governing Use and Reproduction

Single photocopies may be made for research purposes. The RBML maintains ownership of the physical material only. Copyright remains with the creator and his/her heirs. The responsibility to secure copyright permission rests with the patron.

Preferred Citation

Identification of specific item; Date (if known); W. A. Swanberg papers; Box and Folder; Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University Library.

Related Archival Materials

Materials relating to Theodore Dreiser are at: The University of Pennsylvania Library.

Accruals

Materials may have been added to the collection since this finding aid was prepared. Contact rbml@columbia.edu for more information.

Ownership and Custodial History

Gift of W.A. Swanberg, 1984.

Gift of John W. Swanberg & Sara V. Swanberg, 1993.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Papers: Source of acquisition--Swanberg, W.A. Method of acquisition--Gift; Date of acquisition--1984.

Papers: Source of acquisition--Swanberg, John W. & Sara V. Method of acquisition--Gift; Date of acquisition--09/09/93. Accession number--M-93-09-09.

About the Finding Aid / Processing Information

Columbia University Libraries, Rare Book and Manuscript Library

Processing Information

Papers Processed HR 06/--/85.

Papers Processed HR 01/05/93.

Revision Description

2012-05-09 xml document instance created by Carrie Hintz

2017-06-30 xml document instance updated by Catherine C. Ricciardi. Restrictions on collection lifted by family per Curator.

2019-05-20 EAD was imported spring 2019 as part of the ArchivesSpace Phase II migration.

Biographical sketch

Biographer and historian; author of books about Morgan Dix, Theodore Dreiser, Dorothy Elmhirst, James Fisk, William Randolph Hearst, Henry Luce, Joseph Pulitzer, Daniel E. Sickles, Willard D. Straight, Norman Thomas, Flora Payne Whitney, Williams C. Whitney, and the American Civil War. He won the Pulitzer Prize for biography in 1973 for "Luce and his Empire" and the National Book Award for biography in 1977 for "Norman Thomas: The Last Idealist." He also wrote many magazine articles on crime.

Subject Headings

The subject headings listed below are found in this collection. Links below allow searches for other collections at Columbia University, through CLIO, the catalog for Columbia University Libraries, and through ArchiveGRID, a catalog that allows users to search the holdings of multiple research libraries and archives.

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Genre/Form
Advertising CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Articles CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Book reviews CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Card files CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Diaries CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Fiction (general genre) CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
First drafts CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Galley proofs CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Illustrations CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Interviews CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Lists (document genres) CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Manuscripts (documents) CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Manuscripts for publication CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Memorandums CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Microfilms CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Newspapers CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Notebooks CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Notes (documents) CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Photographs CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Poems CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Proofs (printed matter) CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Short stories CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Speeches (documents) CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Name
Anderson, Eleanor Copenhaver, 1896-1985 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Auchincloss, Louis CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Baldwin, Roger N (Roger Nash), 1884-1981 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Barzun, Jacques, 1907-2012 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Benton, William, 1900-1973 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Cain, James M (James Mallahan), 1892-1977 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Carlson, Chester Floyd, 1906-1968 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Catton, Bruce, 1899-1978 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Dix, Morgan, 1827-1908 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Dowdey, Clifford, 1904-1979 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Dreiser, Theodore, 1871-1945 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Elmhirst, Dorothy Payne Whitney Straight CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Fisk, James, Jr., 1835-1872 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Floyd, John B (John Buchanan), 1806-1863 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Fowler, Gene, 1890-1960 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Goldberg, Rube, 1883-1970 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Hearst, William Randolph, 1863-1951 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Hearst, William Randolph, Jr., 1908-1993 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Hersey, John, 1914-1993 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Hobson, Laura Z (Laura Zametkin), 1900-1986 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Hoover, J. Edgar (John Edgar), 1895-1972 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Hutchins, Robert Maynard, 1899-1977 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Johnson, William E (William Eugene), 1862-1945 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Leech, Margaret, 1893-1974 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Luce, Henry Robinson, 1898-1967 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
MacLeish, Archibald, 1892-1982 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Macdonald, Dwight CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
McCullough, David W. CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
McWilliams, Carey, 1905-1980 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Miller, Flora Whitney CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Miller, Merle, 1919-1986 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Nevins, Allan, 1890-1971 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Niebuhr, Reinhold, 1892-1971 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Nixon, Richard M. (Richard Milhous), 1913-1994 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Older, Cora Miranda Baggerly, 1875-1968 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Powell, Dick, 1904-1963 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Pulitzer, Joseph, 1847-1911 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Randolph, A. Philip (Asa Philip), 1889-1979 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Salinger, Pierre CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Sickles, Daniel Edgar, 1819-1914 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Smith, H. Allen (Harry Allen), 1907-1976 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
St. Johns, Adela Rogers CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Stout, Rex, 1886-1975 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Straight, Willard Dickerman, 1880-1918 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Strauss, Anna Lord, 1899-1979 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Thomas, Norman, 1884-1968 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Time, inc CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
United States. Office of War Information CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Untermeyer, Louis, 1885-1977 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
White, Theodore H (Theodore Harold), 1915-1986 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Whitney, William C (William Collins), 1841-1904 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Wilder, Thornton, 1897-1975 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Xerox Corporation CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Place
Fort Sumter (Charleston, S.C.) CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Subject
Authors, American CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Biographers CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Biography -- 19th century CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Businessmen CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Capitalists and financiers CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Clergy CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Espionage CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Inventors CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Journalism CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Journalists CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Newspaper editors CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Newspaper publishing CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Novelists, American CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Periodical editors CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Periodicals -- Publishing CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Prohibition CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Prohibitionists CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Propaganda, American CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Publishers and publishing CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Retired military personnel CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Scrapbooks CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Socialists CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Soldiers CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Spies CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Tobacco industry CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
World War, 1939-1945 -- Propaganda CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Xerography CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID