Lois Swaney collection
Overview
This collection consists of materials from Lois Swaney (married name Lois Connelly), a singer known as the "Sweetheart of Song," who performed for several years with her band at the Hotel Phillips in Kansas City, Missouri. The collection includes several song request cards from performers working at the Hotel Phillips, a 1929 poster announcing Golden Mead and her Metropolitan Girls from South Dakota sent to Swaney, and several photographs of Lois Swaney and bands that performed in the 1940s.
Dates
- Creation: 1929-1940s
Creator
- Swaney, Lois (Compiler, Person)
Conditions Governing Access
No access restrictions.
Conditions Governing Use
Spencer Library staff may determine use restrictions dependent on the physical condition of manuscript materials.
Extent
3 folders (2 folders + 1 oversize folder)
Language of Materials
English
Physical Location
RH MS P949
Physical Location
RH MS-P P949
Physical Location
RH MS R410
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Purchase, Frank Wood, 2008.
Source
- Wood, Frank (Bookseller, Person)
Subject
- Swaney, Lois (Person)
- Hotel Phillips (Kansas City, Mo.) (Organization)
- Title
- Guide to the Lois Swaney Collection
- Subtitle
- Lois Swaney collection
- Author
- Finding aid prepared by mwh. Finding aid encoded by mwh.
- Date
- 2017
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- Finding aid written in English.
- Finding aid permalink
- http://hdl.handle.net/10407/1638225279
- Preferred citation
-
Lois Swaney collection, RH MS P949, Kenneth Spencer Research Library, University of Kansas
Repository Details
Part of the University of Kansas. Kenneth Spencer Research Library Repository