Box 3
Container
Contains 4 Collections and/or Records:
John V. Shankweiler Papers, 1920-1973
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: M.C.-MSS-N-Shankweiler
Scope and Contents
This collection contains two photograph albums, three scrapbooks, and correspondence between Shankweiler and Presidents Levering Tyson and J. Conrad Seegers.
Photographs, 1920 - 1940
Series — Box: 3
Identifier: III
Scope and Contents
The first album is disbound, and contains 43 photographs (4 loose) of life at Muhlenberg during 1920-21, when Dr. Shankweiler was a student. The second, larger album, containing 354 photographs, serves as a window into life at the College during the 1930s.
Shankweiler student photograph album, 1920 - 1921
Item — Box: 3
Identifier: 1
Scope and Contents
This disbound, 16-page album contains photographs of life at Muhlenberg during Dr. Shankweiler's time as a student. Subjects include faculty members; track meet(s) at Lafayette College; "Stunt Day, 1920"; a bonfire; a parade; the Phi Kappa Tau basketball team, with Shankweiler pictured as manager; and the "Soph-Frosh" football game.
Muhlenberg College photograph album, 1930 - 1940
Item — Box: 3
Identifier: 2
Scope and Contents
This large photograph album contains images of all aspects of life at Muhlenberg in the 1930s, beginning at a point when Dr. Shankweiler had been teaching at the College for about 10 years. The album contains a mix of formal campus views of buildings and people, some of which were not personally taken by Shankweiler, but the bulk of the images provide a personal record of the man and his circle of people and interests.Subjects include tennis (teams and individual players) and other...