Peter Kahn papers
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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.
Dates
- 1948-1997.
Creator
- Kahn, Peter, 1921-1997. (Person)
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.)
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.
SERIES LIST
Series I: Oversize Box 1
Series II: Personal Boxes 2, 3-8
Series III: Correspondence Box 2
Series IV: Subject Files Box 2-4
Series V: Course Notebooks, Examples of Work Box 5
Series VI: Letters, Lines, and Pages Box 6
Series VII: Letters of reference, Cornell correspondence re: tenure, promotion Box 7 RESTRICTED
Series VIII: Media
Series IX: Peter Kahn gift to Library Box 1
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
2B Carl A. Kroch Library
Cornell University
Ithaca NY 14853
607-255-3530
607-255-9524 (Fax)
rareref@cornell.edu