Robert Allan Jacobs papers, 1890s-1990s, bulk 1909-1983

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Series II: Project Photographs

Arranged alphabetically by project name, this series includes all photographs of projects contained within the collection--ranging from entire buildings to interiors.



Box 1 Folder 1 1 Astor Plaza (New York, NY), undated

12 items ; includes 2 publicity photographs with press release



Box 1 Folder 2a 1 Penn Plaza (New York, NY), undated

3 items



Box 1 Folder 2b 20 Broad Street (New York, NY), undated

1 items



Box 1 Folder 31 100 Park Avenue (New York, NY), ca. 1954

3 items



Box 1 Folder 3b 120 Wall Street (New York, NY), undated

4 items



Box 1 Folder 4 111 West 40th Street - Union Dime (New York, NY), undated

21 items



Oversize 1 Folder 1 1407 Broadway (New York, NY), undated

50 items



Box 4 Folder 13 1939 World's Fair - Marine Transport Building (New York, NY), 1939

2 items



Oversize 11 Folder 3 1964 World's Fair - African Pavilion (New York, NY), 1964-1965

12 items



Box 4 Folder 16 1964 World's Fair - American Petroleum Industry Pavilion (New York, NY), 1964-1965

17 items



Box 4 Folder 17 1964 World's Fair - Aviation Industries Building (New York, NY), 1964-1965

1 item



Oversize 10 Folder 5 1964 World's Fair - Eastman Kodak Company Pavilion (New York, NY), 1964-1965

26 items, 1 portfolio



Box 4 Folder 14 1964 World's Fair - General Renderings and Contact Sheets (New York, NY, 1964-1965

29 items



Oversize 11 Folder 4 1964 World's Fair - Greyhound Pavilion (New York, NY), 1964-1965

33 items, 3 portfolios



Box 4 Folder 15 1964 World's Fair - Marina (New York, NY), 1964-1965

6 items



Oversize 12 Folder 1 1964 World's Fair - New York Pavilion - Rheingold Oasis - Liebman Breweries Pavilion (New York, NY), 1964-1965

24 items, 2 portfolios



Box 4 Folder 18 1964 World's Fair - Traveler's Insurance Company Pavilion (New York, NY), 1964-1965

42 items



Box 1 Folder 5 2 Park Avenue (New York, NY), undated

7 items



Box 1 Folder 6 20 Broad Street (New York, NY), ca. 1956

4 items



Oversize 1 Folder 2 445 Park Avenue (New York, NY), undated

55 items



Box 1 Folder 7 477 Madison Avenue (New York, NY), undated

1 item



Box 1 Folder 8 489 5th Avenue (New York, NY), undated

13 items



Box 1 Folder 9 540 Madison Avenue (New York, NY) - Sterling National Bank, undated

8 items



Box 1 Folder 10 700 Park Avenue (New York, NY), ca. 1961

15 items



Box 1 Folder 11 810 7th Avenue (New York, NY), undated

4 items



Oversize 2 Folder 1 Airco (Montvale, NJ), undated

59 items



Oversize 24 Folder 2 Alfred Rose Residence - Lake Placid, NY, ca. 1948

38 Items



Oversize 2 Folder 3 American Airlines - 633 3rd Avenue (New York, NY), undated

13 items, 1 portfolio



Oversize 3 Folder 1 American Airlines - Idlewild Airport (New York, NY), 1960s

132 items, 2 portfolios



Box 1 Folder 12 American Airlines, La Guardia Airport (Queens, NY), 1950s and 1960s

68 items



Box 1 Folder 13 American Express, 2 New York Plaza (New York, NY), undated

8 items



Box 1 Folder 14 American Field Service (New York, NY), 1961

3 items



Box 1 Folder 16 Aqueduct Racetrack (New York, NY), undated

8 items



Oversize 3 Folder 2 Asphalt Plant (New York, NY), undated

14 items



Box 1 Folder 17 AT&T 195 Broadway (New York, NY), undated

94 items



Oversize 1 Folder 3 AT&T Long Lines Building - Manhattan (New York, NY), undated

40 items



Oversize 1 Folder 4 AT&T Long Lines Building (Queens, NY), undated

41 items



Box 1 Folder 15 Automatic Data Processing (Clifton, NJ), 1960s

31 items



Box 2 Folder 18 B. Altman (St. David's, PA), undated

47 items



Oversize 2 Folder 2 B. Altman (White Plains, NY), undated

49 items, 1 portfolio



Oversize 4 Folder 1 Bache & Co. (New York, NY), undated

1 portfolio



Box 1 Folder 18 Banco Popular (San Juan, Puerto Rico), undated

21 items



Oversize 4 Folder 2 Baruch College (New York, NY), undated

16 items



Box 1 Folder 19 Baxter Street Apartments (New York, NY), undated

2 items



Box 1 Folder 20 Bell System (New York, NY), undated

5 items



Box 1 Folder 21 Belmont Park (Elmont, NY), 1964

10 items



Box 35 Folder 15 Bill Heler New Bedford Residence, 1955

4 items



Box 1 Folder 22 Bonwitt Teller (New York, NY), undated

7 items



Oversize 4 Folder 3 Broad Street Plaza (New York, NY), undated

6 items



Box 1 Folder 23 Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel (New York, NY), undated

12 items



Box 1 Folder 24 C.A. Vincent Building (New York, NY), 1972

12 items



Box 35 Folder 14 Carribe Murals, undated

2 items



Oversize 4 Folder 4 Carver Houses (New York, NY), undated

32 items



Box 1 Folder 25 Central Synagogue Community House (New York, NY), undated

16 items



Box 1 Folder 26 Chapel of St. Christopher (New York, NY, undated

3 items



Box 1 Folder 27 Cincinnati and Suburban Bell (Cincinnati, OH), undated

46 items



Box 35 Folder 7 CIT, undated

2 items



Box 2 Folder 19 Cities Service (Newark, NJ), 1953

1 item



Oversize 4 Folder 5 City Squire Inn (New York, NY), undated

9 items, 1 portfolio



Box 2 Folder 1 Cleveland Office Building (Cleveland, OH), 1966

12 items



Box 2 Folder 2 Coca Cola (New York, NY), undated

24 items



Box 2 Folder 3 Cone Mills Showroom - 1440 Broadway (New York, NY), undated

6 items



Box 2 Folder 4 Congregation Emanu-El (New York, NY), undated

3 items



Oversize 3 Folder 3 Connecticut Bank and Trust Company (Hartford, CT), undated

1 portfolio



Oversize 5 Folder 1 Connecticut Light and Power & Connecticut Yankee Atomic Power (Norwalk Harbor - Haddam, CT), ca. 1964

98 items, 1 portfolio



Box 2 Folder 5 Corspan / Wellesley Mass. Office Building (Wellesley, MA), undated

4 items



Box 2 Folder 6 Crawford's (New York, NY), undated

5 items



Box 2 Folder 7 Crossroads Office Building (Rochester, NY), undated

12 items



Box 2 Folder 8 Douglass Houses (New York, NY), undated

34 items



Box 2 Folder 9 Dumont Estate Houses (Dumont, NJ), undated

4 items



Oversize 4 Folder 6 Eastern Airlines - JFK International Airport (New York, NY), undated

64 items



Box 2 Folder 9 Eastern Airlines (San Juan, Puerto Rico), undated

5 items



Box 35 Folder 5 Edificio Copello (Dominican Republic), undated

1 item



Box 35 Folder 10 Empire State Building, undated

2 items



Box 2 Folder 10 Empire Trust Company (New York, NY), 1956-1957

11 items



Box 35 Folder 17 Equipment Building Long Lines AT&T Rigo Park, Long Island, undated

3 items



Oversize 4 Folder 7 Fairchild Camera and Instrument Corporation (Jericho, NY), undated

48 items



Box 2 Folder 11 Fawcett Building - 67 West 44th Street (New York, NY), undated

3 items



Box 2 Folder 12 Film Center (New York, NY), undated

2 items



Oversize 5 Folder 2 First National City Bank - 399 Park Avenue - 1 Astor Plaza (New York, NY), undated

31 items, 2 portfolios



Box 2 Folder 13 Fort Monmouth Office Building (New Shrewsbury, NJ), undated

4 items



Box 2 Folder 14 GEON, undated

5 items



Box 2 Folder 15 Gimbels (Valley Stream, NY), 1957

13 items



Oversize 6 Folder 1 Greenwich Savings Bank (New York, NY), undated

24 items



Box 2 Folder 16 Greenwich Savings Bank (Roosevelt Field, NY), undated

6 items



Box 2 Folder 17 Greyhound - Port Authority (New York, NY), undated

13 items



Box 2 Folder 20 Hayes House (Stamford, CT), undated

7 items



Box 35 Folder 6 Herald Square Building, 1953

5 items



Box 2 Folder 21 High School of Art and Design (New York, NY), 1961

3 items



Box 2 Folder 22 Hippodrome Building - 1120 Avenue of the Americas (New York, NY), undated

23 items



Box 2 Folder 23 Holland Plaza Building (New York, NY), undated

1 item



Oversize 7 Folder 2 Houghton Mifflin Company (New York, NY), undated

2 items, 1 portfolio



Box 2 Folder 24 Hyatt Regency (New York, NY), undated

13 items



Box 2 Folder 25 IBM Exhibit, undated

10 items



Box 2 Folder 26 Indiana Bell (Indianapolis, IN), undated

17 items



Box 3 Folder 17 IPCO Hospital Supply Corporation (Mt. Pleasant, NY), undated

1 item



Box 2 Folder 27 Janus Engineers - Kahn & Jacobs Presentation, undated

39 items



Box 35 Folder 16 John Dewey High School - Brooklyn, undated

2 items



Oversize 7 Folder 3 Junior League Recreation Hall (Pleasantville, NJ), undated

10 items



Box 2 Folder 28 Kahn & Jacobs: Over 100 Years - Firm Presentation, undated

97 items



Box 2 Folder 29 Lane Bryant (New York, NY), undated

39 items



Oversize 7 Folder 4 Lighthouse New York Association for the Blind (New York, NY), undated

5 items, 1 portfolio



Box 2 Folder 30 Maimonides Hospital (New York, NY), undated

23 items



Oversize 6 Folder 3 Manresa Island (Norwalk, CT), undated

11 items



Box 35 Folder 12 Manufacturer's Bank of Hanover, 1956

2 items



Box 4 Folder 2 Metropolitan Transit Authority - Suptin Avenue Subway (Queens, NY), undated

86 items



Box 2 Folder 31 Mexico, undated

72 items



Box 3 Folder 1 Mile High Center (Denver, CO), undated

3 items



Box 3 Folder 2 Minskoff Office Building (White Plains, NY), undated

3 items



Oversize 7 Folder 1 Monmouth Shopping Center (Long Branch, NJ), ca. 1960

71 items



Oversize 6 Folder 4 Mt. Sinai Hospital (New York, NY), undated

56 items



Box 3 Folder 3 Mutual of New York (Syracuse, NY), undated

9 items



Box 3 Folder 4 National Vending, undated

2 items



Box 3 Folder 5 Netherlands House - Rockefeller Center (New York, NY), undated

22 items



Box 35 Folder 4 Neudstadter Convalescent Home - Yonkers, NY, undated

9 items



Box 3 Folder 9 New York Telephone - SYTEL (Syracuse, NY), undated

3 items



Box 3 Folder 6 New York Telephone (Elmsford, NY), undated

1 item



Oversize 8 Folder 1 New York Telephone (New York, NY), undated

82 items, 1 portfolio



Box 3 Folder 7 New York Telephone (Pearl River, NY), undated

19 items



Box 3 Folder 8 New York Telephone (Saratoga, NY), undated

3 items



Box 35 Folder 9 New York Times, 1956

1 item



Box 3 Folder 10 Norfolk Shopping Center (Norfolk, VA), undated

1 item



Box 3 Folder 12 North Brother Island Hospital (New York, NY), 1960

16 items



Box 3 Folder 11 Northeast Brooklyn High School (Brooklyn, NY), 1970

15 items



Box 3 Folder 13 Olivetti, undated

2 items



Box 3 Folder 14 Orbach's (New York, NY), undated

20 items



Box 3 Folder 15 Orbach's (Paramus, NJ), undated

35 items



Box 3 Folder 16 Pennsylvania Avenue Complex, undated

8 items


Photograph Album from 1963 World's Fair, 1963



Oversize 8 Folder 2 Picker X-Ray Corporation (White Plains, NY), undated

13 items



Oversize 6 Folder 5 Piel's (Brooklyn, NY), undated

1 portfolio



Oversize 6 Folder 6 Prentice Hall (Englewood Cliffs, NJ), 1954-1960

27 items



Box 3 Folder 18 Remington Rand, undated

5 items



Box 3 Folder 19 Riker's Island Women's Institute (New York, NY), 1960-1971

32 items



Box 3 Folder 20 Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Headquarters Building (Princeton, NJ), 1973

8 items



Oversize 8 Folder 3 Rochester State Hospital (Rochester, NY), undated

68 items, 3 portfolios



Oversize 6 Folder 7 Saks Fifth Avenue, undated

3 items



Box 3 Folder 21 Saks Fifth Avenue (Millburn Avenue, Springfield, NJ), ca. 1958

29 items



Oversize 6 Folder 8 Saks Fifth Avenue (San Francisco, CA), undated

25 items



Oversize 9 Folder 1 Saks Fifth Avenue (White Plains, NY), undated

27 items



Box 3 Folder 22 San Lam (Caption, South Africa), undated

18 items



Oversize 10 Folder 1 Scandinavian Airline System - SAS (Jamaica, NY), 1956-1960

42 items



Box 3 Folder 23 Schlitz Brewing Company (Brooklyn, NY), ca. 1954-1956

8 items



Box 3 Folder 24 Seaboard & Western Airlines (New York, NY), ca. 1960

20 items



Box 35 Folder 13 Seaforth, undated

3 items



Box 3 Folder 25 Seagram House (New York, NY), 1961

2 items



Box 3 Folder 26 Sears Roebuck & Co. (New York, NY), undated

21 items



Oversize 4 Folder 8 Sheraton Park Hotel (Washington DC), undated

7 items



Oversize 9 Folder 2 Sherman Sterling Wright Law Offices (New York, NY), undated

1 portfolio



Box 3 Folder 27 Shorefront High School (Brooklyn, NY), ca. 1965

13 items



Box 3 Folder 28 South Central Bell, (Birmingham, AL), undated

40 items



Box 3 Folder 29 Stamford Office Building (Stamford, CT), undated

14 items



Box 3 Folder 20 Standard Oil of Indiana (Indianapolis, IN), 1968

10 items



Box 4 Folder 1 State University of New York (Genesco, NY), undated

40 items



Oversize 10 Folder 2 Sun Life Insurance Company (New York, NY), undated

42 items



Box 35 Folder 8 Survey Slides of Fairfield and Norwalk, undated

23 items



Box 4 Folder 3 Sybron Tower (Rochester, NY), undated

4 items



Box 4 Folder 4 Tatlow - Abbott, Merkt, & Co., undated

44 items



Box 4 Folder 5 Technicon Science Center (Tarrytown, NY), undated

12 items



Oversize 10 Folder 3 Temple Emanuel Religious School (New York, NY), undated

30 items, 1 portfolio



Oversize 6 Folder 2 The Hecht Company (Arlington, VA), undated

3 items



Box 4 Folder 6 Transportation Facilities - Kahn & Jacobs Presentation, undated

227 items



Oversize 9 Folder 3 Travelers Insurance Company (Boston, MA), 1959

26 items, 1 portfolio



Box 4 Folder 8 U.S. Mission to the United Nations (New York, NY), 1961

8 items



Oversize 24 Folder 1 Unidentified Projects - Building Models and Plans

34 items



Box 35 Folder 3 Unidentified Projects - Built

63 Items



Box 4 Folder 7 United States Air Force Academy Cemetery (Colorado Springs, CO), undated

31 items



Oversize 9 Folder 4 United States Customs Court and Federal Office Building (New York, NY), undated

60 items



Oversize 11 Folder 1 University Tower (New Haven, CT), undated

8 items



Box 4 Folder 9 Vendo (Kansas City, MO), undated

6 items



Box 4 Folder 10 Water Street Project - Seaport (New York, NY), undated

6 items



Box 4 Folder 11 Westchester Day School (Mamaroneck, NY), undated

19 items



Oversize 10 Folder 4 Western Union (Upper Saddle River, NJ), undated

90 items



Box 4 Folder 12 White Plains Office Building (White Plains, NY), undated

30 items



Oversize 11 Folder 2 White Weld & Company (New Haven, CT), undated

13 items, 1 portfolio



Box 35 Folder 11 Worthington Corporation, undated

1 item



Oversize 12 Folder 2 Youth Houses - Shelter for Delinquent Boys (Bronx, NY), ca. 1957-1961

47 items, 1 portfolio