James D. Swan Papers, 1929-1974

Container Title
Part 4 (AD 988-991, VBC 264, Audio 1655A): Additions, 1929-1934
Physical Description: 4 film reels (16 mm), 1 videorecording, and 1 audio recording 
Scope and Content Note: Additions, 1929-1934, consisting of home movies made by James Delos Swan mainly of the Swan family and Turtle Valley Farms near Delavan in Walworth County (Sugar Creek Township), but also including images of Highland Park, Illinois and Whitewater, Wisconsin. Included are images of children riding bicycles and ponies, flower gardens, pets, other family activities, and agricultural processes such as planting potatoes and weeding onions. Films are accompanied by a tape recording of the donors describing various footage.
AD 988
“Swan Agriculture,” 1933-1934
Note: Onion weeding, 1933; Planting potatoes, three-gang weeder, perfect stand of triumphs, 1934; Digging field 26, late October 1934
AD 989
“1930s Highland Park”
Note: Edie, Nancy Belle, and Cappy in the snow, “End of a Hat,” December 1929; Nancy Belle's first garden flower, April 1930; Tenderfoot, on Portage and Camp Loons, Old Indian Ben, July 1930; Nancy Belle's first swim, garden group (Pops, Edie, Joe, Jim, and Cappy), July 1930
AD 990
“Swan Children, 1931-1932”
Note: Nancy Belle and Cappy in the snow, December 1930; Nancy Belle, Edie, Pops and Jim, Emily, March 1931; Nancy Belle learning to bicycle, April 1931; General cavorting, Jim Awnings, Edie, Highland Park, early summer 1931; Nancy Belle, Cappy, and Cris Downfall, Gypsy, and Butterfly, fall 1931; Nancy Belle and Nick, Highland Park, March 1932; Nancy Belle and Tim rough riding at 4 years in rear field, shot of J. Olsen, peony path, lilies, Emily and Nancy Belle, Ol' Man River House at Whitewater, Summer 1932
AD 991
Swan family, 1930-1934
Note: Edie and Jim en negligee at Tenderfoot, a hot day, luncheon in camp, July 1930; Highland Park, winter 1933-1934; Whitewater, April 1934
VBC 264
Swan family home movies, 1929-1934
Note: Video copy of the film footage
1655A/1
Swan family, audio description of film footage
Note: Note: The donors describe various footage.