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Box 2

 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.

Scrapbooks, 1950 - 1973

 Series — Box: 2
Identifier: II
Scope and Contents From the Collection: This collection contains two photograph albums, three scrapbooks, and correspondence between Shankweiler and Presidents Levering Tyson and J. Conrad Seegers.

1964 Commencement presentation binder, 1964

 Item — Box: 2
Identifier: 1
Scope and Contents This small scrapbook contains material relating to the 1964 Muhlenberg Commencement, at which Dr. Shankweiler was awarded an honorary doctorate. Contents comprise newspaper clippings, photographs, programs, and the text of the speeches given by Dr. W. Clarke Wescoe '41 and Dr. Conrad Bergendoff.

John V. Shankweiler career retrospective scrapbooks, 1950 - 1973

 Item — Box: 2
Identifier: 2
Scope and Contents Both volumes contain photographs, newspaper clippings, dedication programs, College promotional brochures, alumni magazines, and more. Volume I appears to have been compiled in the early 1950s. It is not arranged chronologically: it contains personal memorabilia such as reciepts for automobiles from the 1920s, and a program for 1915 "Class Day" exercises at Shankweiler's teachers college, Keystone State Normal School. The majority of the material in Volume I dates from 1930 through the...