NTE2cg901.xml Guide to the Alexander Swantz Papers 1903-1961 Swantz (Alexander) Papers Cheryl Gunselman Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections, Washington State University Libraries 2018-06-07
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Alex Swantz Papers Cage.901 0.25 linear feet 1 box. 1903-1961 This collection consists of professional papers of agricultural economist and USDA administrator Alex Swantz, along with dairy industry history material that he collected.

This collection consists of professional papers of agricultural economist and USDA administrator Alex Swantz, along with dairy industry history material that he collected. It includes a small amount of correspondence, a speech, a set of issues of "The Market Administrator's Report," miscellaneous papers, and issues of dairy industry periodicals and ephemera.

Alexander Swantz graduated from Washington State College in 1941 with a degree in Agricultural Economics, and went on to a career with the United States Department of Agriculture as an agricultural economist and administrator. In the 1950s and 1960s, he was the Federal Milk Market Administrator for the Inland Empire Marketing Area, based in Spokane, WA.

This collection is open and available for research use.

Copyright restrictions may apply.

Cheryl Gunselman processed this collection in 2018.

Alex Swantz donated this collection to the Washington State University Libraries in 2000 (MS.2000.18).

[item descriptioin]; Alex Swantz Papers, 1903-1961; Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections; Washington State University Libraries; Pullman, WA.

 Dairy products industry--History Agriculture 1956-1961 Series 1: Alex Swantz professional papers 1 1 1956-1957 Correspondence, speech, and miscellaneous papers. 1 2-4 1956-1961 "The Market Administrator's Report" (information bulletin for "producers not members of cooperative associations"); volumes 1-6. 1903-1956 Series 2: Collected materials on dairy history 1 5 1903 July Oregon Condensed Milk Company financial statement for June 1903 (manuscript). 1 5 1948 Newspaper articles about Dr. Henry Dexter Thatcher (reproductions). 1 5 1950 Dairymen's Co-op Creamery of Boise Valley 25th anniversary pamphlet. 1 5 1956 April 1 Article about the Spokane Milkshed by John T. Roberts, from Western Dairy Journal (clipping). 1 5 circa 1964 "The History, Disappearance and Return of Cowbells" (pamphlet). 1 6 1931 February Issue of The Washington Co-op Dairyman (volume 1, number 1). 1 6 1938 United Dairymen's Association annual. 1 6 1939 July Issue of The United Dairyman (newspaper, volume 1, number 1). 1 6 1949 United Dairymen's Association 31st anniversary historical report. 1 6 1951 April Issue of the Skagit Co-op Dairyman (volume 28, number 8).