Ely Jacques Kahn papers, 1906-1986, bulk 1906-1972

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

Accession 1992.011


Box 2 Folder 2 Notes

Accession 1993.016


Box 2 Folder 3 Saylor, Henry H. "Ely Jacques Kahn." Reprint. Architecture, Vol. LXIV (1931 August), pp. 65-70., 1931

Accession 1993.016


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

Accession 1993.016


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

Accession 1994.013


Box 2 Folder 15 Sketchbook, 1907

Accession 1993.016


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

Accession 1994.013

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.

Accession 1993.016


Box 2 Folder 7 Bergdorf Goodman, Promotional Booklet

Accession 1993.016


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

Accession 1992.011


Box 2 Folder 8 Correspondence, Kahn & Jacob Staff

Accession 1993.016


Box 2 Folder 9 Correspondence, Press of Case Western Reserve University

Accession 1993.016


Box 2 Folder 10 Correspondence, Watercolors

Accession 1993.016


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

Accession 1993.016


Box 2 Folder 13 Kahn & Jacobs, financial statements, 1957 to 1961

Accession 1993.016


Box 1 Folder 24 School of Industrial Arts, 1955 to 1956

Accession 1992.011


Box 2 Folder 14 Travel, Itinerary and Information for Asia Tour

Accession 1993.016

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

Accession 1993.016


Box 2 Folder 20 Kahn, Ely Jacques. "This Modernism." T-Square Club Journal, Vol. 1 (Sept 1931), p.5., 1931

Accession 1993.016


Box 1 Folder 25 Manuscript, Speeches

Accession 1992.011


Box 1 Folder 26 Manuscript, Store Design

Accession 1992.011


Box 1 Folder 27 Published Articles, 1957, 1963

Accession 1992.011

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

Accession 1993.016


Box 3 Folder 5 Ephemera

Accession 1993.016


Box 4 Folder 2 Photo, Academic Class Portrait

Accession 1993.016


Box 4 Folder 5 Photo, Academic Class Portraits

Accession 1994.013


Box 3 Folder 6 Photographs, Built Works

Accession 1993.016


Box 3 Folder 7 Photographs, Personal

Accession 1993.016


Box 3 Folder 8 Photographs, Personal

Accession 1994.013


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


Box 3 Folder 10 "Memoirs of Lieslotte Kahn", 1970

Accession 1994.013


Box 3 Folder 9 Correspondence

Accession 1993.016


Box 4 Folder 4 Watercolor, 1980

Accession 1994.013