The Richard D. and Grace H. Swensen autograph and photograph collection.

English

Unprocessed.

Gift of Richard D. and Grace H. Swensen, 2009.

Much of the material was collected by Alf Swensen, a chemistry professor who chaired the Wartburg College Artist Series from 1921 to 1968. His son and daughter-in-law, Richard D. and Grace H. Swensen, continued the collection and donated it to Yale University. Their son, David F. Swensen, manages the Yale endowment and also serves on the faculty of Yale College and the Yale School of Management.

The collection consists chiefly of autographed photographs of notable musicians and other prominent persons who took part in the Wartburg College Artist Series. It also includes additional photographs, autographed programs, an autographed business card, and a publication about the Wartburg College Artist Series. Robert Shaw, Rise Stevens, Eleanor Steber, Arthur Fiedler, Artur Rubinstein, Jascha Heifetz, Rudolf Serkin, Percy Grainger, Norman Vincent Peale, Carl Sandberg, and Charles Laughton are among those included.

August 13, 2012