Chapel - Windows, 1942 - 1949

File — Box: W-03

Identifier: W:030

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

From the Series: This series includes materials relating to architectural plans, funding, construction, dedication of buildings/cornerstones.

Includes photos, postcards, newspaper clippings, calendars, brochures, student rules, blueprints, worship bulletins, fliers, and slides with script.

Dates

1942 - 1949

Creator

Muhlenberg College (Organization)

Conditions Governing Access

The collection is open for research, with only a few very limited restrictions; access by appointment.

Extent

From the Collection: 50 Linear Feet (The bulk of the printed material (previously the vertical files) is contained in flip-top document cases. Textiles, memorabilia, and other realia is stored in appropriate lidded boxes.)

Additional Description

Donors, letters to D'Ascenzo Studio, memorial windows by conferences: Wilkes-Barre, Philadelphia, Allentown;

Class of 1922, Bernheim, Dr. Marks, Dr. Urich, Dr. Wilker, Wycliff Window in honor of Rev. Frank M. Urich;

Tyson letters regarding cost;

1939 letter mentions Chapel window presented by children of Levering Tyson;

Chapel memorial window dedicated to Tyson's three children - James, Jane, David;

Gospel side and European side in Chapel 1939;

Tyson correspondence with The D'Ascenzo Studies regardingcost and design of chapel windows 1939-1941;

Clark Wescoe and others wish to reserve eight openings over front entrance of Chapel in honor of Clyde Seaman who died just before graduation in 1941;

Tyson letter to Dr. William K. Holman regarding dedication of Chapel windows on 6/1/47, since Holman donated the Army and Navy Window

Copyies of "D'ASCENZO - THE ART OF STAINED GLASS - from the collection of Stanle Switlik"; includes biography of Nicola D'Ascenzo (1871-1954), Italian artist whose studio is in Philadephia