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Lester Scheaffer Collection

 Item — Box: SC 7
Identifier: sw0327

Content Description

Shadows on a Wall, Lester Lewis Scheaffer, an autobiography including accounts of Scheaffer's development as a YMCA and settlement house worker.

Dates

  • Creation: 1996

Biographical / Historical

Lester Lewis Scheaffer was executive director of Northeast Neighborhood House in Minneapolis, Minnesota and helped to establishe Camp Bovey in Wisconsin. He also worked in social service agencies and settlement houses in San Francisco, Chicago, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh and Syracuse.

Extent

1 linear inch

Language of Materials

English

Condition Description

good

Title
Lester Scheaffer Collection
Status
Completed
Date
2017/09/28
Description rules
Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Language of description
English
Script of description
Latin
Language of description note
English

Collecting Area Details

Contact The Social Welfare History Archives Collecting Area

Contact:

612-624-6394