{"id":4205,"date":"2026-08-05T20:40:55","date_gmt":"2026-08-05T20:40:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.umbc.edu\/specialcollections\/finding-aids\/coll153\/"},"modified":"2026-08-05T20:40:55","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T20:40:55","slug":"coll153","status":"publish","type":"finding_aid","link":"https:\/\/library.umbc.edu\/specialcollections\/finding-aids\/coll153\/","title":{"rendered":"J. H. Swartz manuscript"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"overview\">Overview<\/h2><figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table><tbody><tr><td><strong>Title:<\/strong><\/td><td>J. H. Swartz manuscript<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><strong>Call Number:<\/strong><\/td><td>Coll153<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><strong>Creator:<\/strong><\/td><td>Swartz Joel H. (Joel Howard) 1893-<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><strong>Dates:<\/strong><\/td><td>circa 1930s<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><strong>Size:<\/strong><\/td><td>1 box (.25 linear feet)<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><strong>Abstract:<\/strong><\/td><td>Contains a manuscript of &#8220;A Manual on Geophysical Prospecting (Part II With Resistivity Methods)&#8221; by J. H. Swartz. The manual was written for the U. S. Department of the Interior&#8217;s Bureau of Mines, for which Swartz was a consultant. The title page of the manual indicates that it was released as a Bureau of Mines bulletin. The manual is approximately 430 pages, printed on onion skin paper, and contains hand drawn graphs and tables.<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><strong>Language:<\/strong><\/td><td>English<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><strong>Citation:<\/strong><\/td><td>J. H. Swartz manuscript, Collection 153, Special Collections, University of Maryland, Baltimore County (Baltimore, MD).<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure><h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"biography\">Administrative\/Biographical Note<\/h2><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Joel Howard Swartz (1893-1971) grew up in Baltimore, attended Johns Hopkins University, and held a Ph.D. in geology. He taught as a professor at multiple universities and colleges, served on the atomic bomb project and other projects of national scale, and worked as a consultant in geophysical prospecting for the U.S. Bureau of Mines. He later joined the geophysical unit, and remained there until retiring in 1963.<\/p><h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"scope\">Scope &#038; Content<\/h2><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Organized by page number.<\/p><h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"provenance\">Provenance Information<\/h2><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Accession information is unknown.<\/p><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Upon arrival this manuscript was housed in an acid free folder in a box with 4 other manuscripts. Previously assigned Ms. Coll #3.<\/p><h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"access\">Access &#038; Use<\/h2><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">No restrictions.<\/p><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Reproductions allowed for research purposes. Copyright maintained by the creator.<\/p><h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"subjects\">Subject Headings<\/h2><ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Prospecting&#8211;Geophysical methods<\/li><li>United States Bureau of Mines Bulletin<\/li><\/ul>","protected":false},"template":"","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false},"class_list":["post-4205","finding_aid","type-finding_aid","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.umbc.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/finding_aid\/4205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.umbc.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/finding_aid"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.umbc.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/finding_aid"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.umbc.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}