Art on Campus, 1946 - 1983

File — Box: W-05

Identifier: W:062

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

1946 - 1983

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

Painting of Martin Luther by Gustav Spangenberg is gift to college by Senator Andrew J. Sordoni;

Class of 1914 commissions muralist to depict traditions of college in four large panels in reconstructed Administration Building;

Portrait of J. Conrad Seegers painted by Furman Finck;

Unveiling ceremony for portrait of Samuel Geiss Trexler;

Sam Wolf '27 restores Muhlenberg's major painting of Luther family;

"FIVE AMERICANS" exhibit loaned to college by Bertha Schaefer Gallery; Lehigh Art Alliance exhibits in Seegers Union Building