Swift family.
Swift family papers, 1723-1863.
Letters of George L. Swift, including pictures of self and home, deeds, appraisals, bonds, mortgages, patent exam report, diary, poems, appointment in regiment of cavalry, insurance policy, notes, wills, inventory of estate, and lecture on spirit rapping. Correspondents include Job Pierce, Sabina Underwood, Hiram Swift, Herman Swift, and E.B. Swift. Also, machines used by George Swift to illustrate his lectures on the "magnetic telegraph" and other wonders of electro-magnetism; lithographs of H. L. Swift and W. A. Swift; and broadsides used by the Swifts to advertise their lectures.
Members of the Swift family, brothers and cousins, including George Lucien Swift, H.A. Swift, William A. Swift, Edwin B. Swift, and Lewis Swift, from DeRuyter and Clarkson, N.Y., were lecturers on electromagnetism and the telegraph. Lewis Swift became an astronomer and director of the Warner Observatory in Rochester and then the Lowe Observatory near Pasadena.
Swift, George L.
Swift, H. A.
Swift, William A.
Swift, Edwin B.
Swift, Lewis.
Pierce, Job.
Underwood, Sabina.
Swift, Hiram.
Swift, Herman.
Swift, E. B.
Spiritualism.
Table-moving (Spiritualism).
Lectures and lecturing.
Family -- New York (State) -- Clarkson.
Electromagnetism.
Family -- New York (State) -- DeRuyter.
Mortgages. ftamc aat
Diaries lcgft aat
Wills. ftamc
Lectures lcgft aat
AIP-ICOS
Cornell University. Carl A. Kroch Library. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections. 2B Carl A Kroch Library, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA