The Ernest Swift Papers consist almost entirely of speeches, talks, papers, reports and other writings by Swift on a variety of topics related to conservation. The speeches are chronologically arranged and cover the period 1936-1941 when Swift was deputy director of the Conservation Department and 1947-1964 when he was director of the department and head of the National Wildlife Federation. Other material in the collection includes miscellaneous correspondence, miscellaneous biographical material (including a True magazine article based on an arrest he made of a Chicago gangster in the 1920s), indexes and lists of the speeches, and a small file of Wisconsin-related conservation speeches by others.
