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Peter Kahn papers

 Collection
Identifier: 14-28-2920

COLLECTION DESCRIPTION

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.

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Dates

  • 1948-1997.

Creator

Language of Materials

Collection material in English

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

Professor of Art, Cornell University

Extent

3.5 cubic feet. (3.5 cubic feet.)

82 items. (82 items.)

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Abstract

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.

Physical Description

Correspondence, artwork, lecture notes, photographs, subject files, videotape, audiocassette, broadsides

General

Contact Information:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections 2B Carl A. Kroch Library Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853 (607) 255-3530 Fax: (607) 255-9524 rareref@cornell.edu http://rmc.library.cornell.edu
Compiled by:
Julia Parker
Date completed:
September, 1999
EAD encoding:
Peter Martinez, April 5, 2004
Last modified:
Jude Corina, January 2017
Status
Completed
Author
Compiled by Julia Parker
Date
April 5, 2004
Language of description
Undetermined
Script of description
Code for undetermined script

Repository Details

Part of the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections Repository

Contact:
2B Carl A. Kroch Library
Cornell University
Ithaca NY 14853
607-255-3530
607-255-9524 (Fax)