Series I: Biographical/Background Material
Box 2 Folder 1
"Building Types Study 500: Forty Years of American Architecture as explored in 499 Building Types Studies," Architectural Reocrd (Apr 1977), pp. 117-150
Accession 1993.016
Includes a letter from Martin Filler to Lisellote Kahn
Box 1 Folder 19
Diary, 1933
Accession 1992.011
Includes India travel correspondence and ephemera
Box 3 Folder 11
Perpetual Year Book, 1925-1959
A Perennial Diary maintained by Kahn for nearly 35 years.
Accession 2023.001 (Donated by Jewel Stern)
Box 1 Folder 20
École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts, Oral History, 1971 to 1973
Accession 1992.011
Interview conducted by Richard Chafee in 1971; includes transcript, audio tape and correspondence between Mrs. Kahn and Chafee
Box 1 Folder 21
Manuscript, Family History/Early Life, 1962
Box 2 Folder 2
Notes
Box 2 Folder 3
Saylor, Henry H. "Ely Jacques Kahn." Reprint. Architecture, Vol. LXIV (1931 August), pp. 65-70., 1931
Box 2 Folder 4
The Asphalt Green, 1979
Accession 1993.016
Seventh Annual Benefit Program and clippings
Box 2 Folder 5
Tunick, Susan. "A Directory of Signficant Terra Cotta Buildings in New York City." Sites, No. 18 (1986), pp. 58-64., 1986
Accession 1993.016
Cover: Detail, upper stories of 2 Park Avenue, New York. Ely Jacques Kahn, architect (1927).
Series II: Student Work and Art
Box 4 Folder 3
École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts, Lithograph
Box 1 Folder 1 to 2
École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts, Student drawings, 1907 to 1910
Accession 1963.001
33 sheets : graphite on paper ; 28.0 x 21.0 cm. (11 x 8 1/4 in.)
Project-level record
Box 4 Folder 6
Ink Drawing
Box 2 Folder 15
Sketchbook, 1907
Box 2 Folder 16
Sketches and sketchbooks, 1906, 1971-2
Accession 1993.016
22 ink sketches, ca. 1971-1972, mostly New York City buildings and other architectural details
11 sketchbook, ca. 28 pp. Paris, [1906?]
1 sketchbook, 23 leaves, [Paris, 190?]
Box 4 Folder 7
Watercolor, 1972
Series III: Professional Papers
Box 2 Folder 6
"Modern Architecture Symposium (MAS 1964): The Decade 1929-1939." Reprint. Journal of the Society of Architecutral Historians, Vol. XXIV (Mar 1965), pp. 3-96.
Box 2 Folder 7
Bergdorf Goodman, Promotional Booklet
Box 1 Folder 22
Columbia College Council, 1954 to 1957
Accession 1992.011
Press release, minutes and memorandums
Box 1 Folder 28
Correspondence (Jewel Stern Donation), 1927-1932
2 letters: M.A. Mikkelsen (editor of The Architectural Record) to Kahn regarding 2 Park Avenue (July 8, 1927); Kahn to Honorable James J. Walker recommending William H. Gompert as Tenement House COmmissioner (May 3, 1932)
Accession 2023.001 (Donated by Jewel Stern)
Box 1 Folder 23
Correspondence, 1954 to 1957
Box 2 Folder 8
Correspondence, Kahn & Jacob Staff
Box 2 Folder 9
Correspondence, Press of Case Western Reserve University
Box 2 Folder 10
Correspondence, Watercolors
Box 2 Folder 11
Cushman & Wakefield, Inc. Promotional Booklet, 1957
Accession 1993.016
(Real estate firm)
Box 2 Folder 12
Kahn & Jacob, partnership agreements, 1940 to 1943
Box 2 Folder 13
Kahn & Jacobs, financial statements, 1957 to 1961
Box 1 Folder 24
School of Industrial Arts, 1955 to 1956
Box 2 Folder 14
Travel, Itinerary and Information for Asia Tour
Series IV: Writings
Box 1 Folder 3 to 18
Autobiography, 1970 to 1972
Accession 1973.012
Manuscript with annotations
Box 2 Folder 17
Kahn, Ely Jacques. "American Office Practice." Reprint. The Journal of the Royal Institute of British Architects, Vol. 64 (Sept 1957), pp. 443-451., 1957
Accession 1993.016
Paper read at RIBA, June 4, 1957.
Box 2 Folder 18
Kahn, Ely Jacques. "Tall Buildings in New York." Reprint. RIBA Journal, Vol. 62, No. 12 (Oct 1960), pp. 451-456.
Accession 1993.016
Talk given at RIBA, June 2, 1960.
Box 2 Folder 19
Kahn, Ely Jacques. "The Modern European Shop and Store." Reprint. Architectural Forum, Vol. L (June 1929), pp. 788-804., 1929
Box 2 Folder 20
Kahn, Ely Jacques. "This Modernism." T-Square Club Journal, Vol. 1 (Sept 1931), p.5., 1931
Box 1 Folder 25
Manuscript, Speeches
Box 1 Folder 26
Manuscript, Store Design
Box 1 Folder 27
Published Articles, 1957, 1963
Series V: Photographs and Ephemera
For page-level description of the scrapbooks found in this series, please see thisdownloadable inventory
Box 4 Folder 1
Clippings, General
Box 3 Folder 5
Ephemera
Box 4 Folder 2
Photo, Academic Class Portrait
Box 4 Folder 5
Photo, Academic Class Portraits
Box 3 Folder 6
Photographs, Built Works
Box 3 Folder 7
Photographs, Personal
Box 3 Folder 8
Photographs, Personal
Box 5 Box 6
Scrapbook, Volume I
Accession 1992.003
See link under the series heading for a downloadable inventory of the scrapbooks.
Box 7 Box 8
Scrapbook, Volume II
Accession 1992.003
See link under the series heading for a downloadable inventory of the scrapbooks.
Box 9 Box 10 Box 11
Scrapbook, Volume III
Accession 1992.003
See link under the series heading for a downloadable inventory of the scrapbooks.
Box 3 Folder 1 to 4
Scrapbook, Volume IV
Accession 1993.016
See link under the series heading for a downloadable inventory of the scrapbooks.
Series VI: Liselotte Kahn papers