{"id":4411,"date":"2026-08-17T21:09:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T21:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.umbc.edu\/specialcollections\/finding-aids\/coll153\/"},"modified":"2026-09-03T15:11:27","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T15:11:27","slug":"coll153","status":"publish","type":"finding_aid","link":"https:\/\/library.umbc.edu\/specialcollections\/finding-aids\/coll153\/","title":{"rendered":"J. H. Swartz manuscript"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Overview<\/h1>\n
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Title:<\/td>\nJ. H. Swartz manuscript<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Call Number:<\/td>\nColl153<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Creator:<\/td>\nSwartz, Joel H. (Joel Howard), 1893-<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Dates:<\/td>\ncirca 1930s<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Size:<\/td>\n1 box (.25 linear feet)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Language:<\/td>\nEnglish<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Abstract:<\/td>\nContains a manuscript of “A Manual on Geophysical Prospecting (Part II With Resistivity Methods)” by J. H. Swartz. The manual was written for the U. S. Department of the Interior’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>\n<\/tr>\n
Citation:<\/td>\nJ. H. Swartz manuscript, Collection 153, Special Collections, University of Maryland, Baltimore County (Baltimore, MD).<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n
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Administrative\/Biographical Note<\/h1>\n

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>\n

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Scope & Content<\/h1>\n

Arrangement<\/h2>\n

Organized by page number.<\/p>\n

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Provenance Information<\/h1>\n

Provenance and Acquisition Information<\/h2>\n

Accession information is unknown.<\/p>\n

Processing Note<\/h2>\n

Upon arrival this manuscript was housed in an acid free folder in a box with 4 other manuscripts. Previously assigned Ms. Coll #3.<\/p>\n

Descriptive Rules Used<\/h2>\n

Describing Archives: a Content Standard (DACS)<\/p>\n

Archives Processing Manual: Description (2015)<\/a><\/p>\n

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Access & Use<\/h1>\n

Finding Aids<\/h2>\n

Finding Aid: \/specialcollections\/finding-aids\/coll153\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Access Conditions<\/h2>\n

No restrictions.<\/p>\n

Conditions Governing Reproductions and Use<\/h2>\n

Reproductions allowed for research purposes. Copyright maintained by the creator.<\/p>\n

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Subject Headings<\/h1>\n

Creators<\/h2>\n

Swartz, Joel H. (Joel Howard), 1893-<\/p>\n

Subjects<\/h2>\n

Prospecting–Geophysical methods<\/p>\n

United States — Bureau of Mines — Bulletin<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"template":"","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false},"class_list":["post-4411","finding_aid","type-finding_aid","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.umbc.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/finding_aid\/4411","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=4411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}