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Series IV: Subject Files

 Series

COLLECTION DESCRIPTION

From the Collection:

Correspondence, artwork, lecture notes, photographs, subject files, and other papers; includes broadsides for events at Cornell and in the Ithaca community; includes videotape and audiocassette of Memorial/Testimonial service, and other printed items including Kahn's artwork.

Also, "The Unfinished Autobiography of H. Peter Kahn," compiled by Ruth Gannett Kahn and edited by Charlotte Kahn; and spiral bound copies of newspaper articles about Kahn. Typescript on "Religion, Nature and Art," and typescript manuscript of speech, "Technology and Virtue: Joe Blumenthal and the Spiral Press."

Gifts presented to Cornell Library by Peter Kahn on March 20, 1991. Includes medieval manuscripts, caricatures by G. M. Woodward, engravings and other printed teaching samples.

Dates

  • 1948-1997.

Creator

Language of Materials

Collection material in English

Extent

3.5 cubic feet. (3.5 cubic feet.)

82 items. (82 items.)

Repository Details

Part of the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections Repository

Contact:
2B Carl A. Kroch Library
Cornell University
Ithaca NY 14853
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