Samuel Eilenberg Papers, 1902-1996

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Series I: Personal Papers, Documents, and Correspondence, 1913-1996

This series contains an especially wide range of materials in several different languages: biographical information about Eilenberg, including identity papers, passports, and legal documents; documentation of the academic honors and awards he received; correspondence concerning both his academic career and personal affairs; tax returns for the years 1980-94 and bank statements dating from the period 1969-92. The series is organized by type of material.



Box 1 Folder 1 Biographical and Genealogical Information, 1991-1994


Box 1 Folder 2 Identity Papers, Passports, Diplomas, and Legal Documents, 1934-1960

Eilenberg's identity papers, passports, and other travel and legal documents, document his early life and travels (Box 1, Folder 2). Along with war-era documents attesting to his birth date in the absence of a birth certificate and a copy of his marriage license in 1960, are copies of Eilenberg's Polish passports (his later U.S. Passports are missing), visas, and official travel papers, which document his travels through 1930s Europe. Stamps on travel documents for entry into Nazi Germany provide vivid testimony to the Europe that Eilenberg fled in 1939. There are various identity cards, documents, and correspondence relating to Eilenberg's work for the Division of War Research at Columbia in the 1940s, under the auspices of the U.S. Office of Scientific Research and Development; among this material is official correspondence about the possibility of him doing consulting work as a mathematician in an "active war theater." Also there appears to be a dated 1913 copy of Eilenberg's Polish Birth Certificate.


Box 1 Folder 3-5 Academic Honors and Awards, 1945-1992, 3 folders


Box 1 Folder 6 Select Articles on Honors and Awards, 1974-1989


Box 1 Folder 7 Correspondence on Academic Positions and Wartime Appointments, 1939-1966


Box 1 Folder 8 Correspondence and Documents on Columbia Appointments, 1949-1983


Box 1 Folder 9 Family Property in Warsaw: Documents and Correspondence, 1939-1975

Documents and correspondence pertaining to "parents' property in Warsaw," as Eilenberg himself labeled the original file folder. This property might help explain how an academic initially acquired the financial wherewithal to build a multi-million dollar art collection.


Correspondence, Personal

It is worth pointing out that almost all of this personal correspondence consists of letters sent to Eilenberg by others (as is also the case with his math correspondence in Series III); in only a small proportion of correspondence did Eilenberg preserve copies of what he himself wrote in reply. It is also noteworthy that Eilenberg's correspondence is in Polish, French, and occasionally German, in addition to English, evidence of his polyglot language skills.


Box 1 Folder 10 1940-1970

(Polish)


Box 1 Folder 11 1948-1979


Box 1 Folder 12 From "Family Members", 1940-1977


Box 1 Folder 13 Naftali and Malka Frenkiel, 1939-1986

A file pertaining to Eilenberg's cousin, Naftali, a war-time aeronautics researcher in occupied France, provides additional World War II era documents. This material was passed along to Eilenberg after Naftali's death by a friend of his late cousin, who sought Eilenberg's help in securing financial compensation for Naftali's care-giver, as a letter in the folder explains.


Box 1 Folder 14 Bala Borenstein, 1947-1974


Box 1 Folder 15-17 Natasha, 1961-1983, 3 folders

The largest single portion of the correspondence in this series is from Eilenberg's wife, Natasha, and it reveals their genuinely affectionate relationship prior to their bitter divorce proceedings, lasting over 10 years in all. This correspondence also shows that Natasha seems to have been a partner in Eilenberg's art collecting activities, and this viewpoint is supported by the art collection correspondence in Series II, which is frequently addressed to them both.


Box 1 Folder 18 1980-1993


Box 1 Folder 19 70th Birthday Party, 1983

The papers in Folders 19-21, which concern 70th and 80th birthday celebrations provide similar insight into Eilenberg's later years and suggest the esteem with which he was held by a wide circle (as do commemorative papers delivered in Eilenberg's honor by math colleagues in Box 7, Folders 21-22). Organized by art dealer and friend Peter Marks, these birthday celebration documents also illustrate the characteristic way in which Eilenberg's professional contacts in the art and math worlds often factored significantly in his personal life too.


Box 1 Folder 20 70th Birthday Party Autograph Album, 1983


Box 1 Folder 21 80th Birthday Party, 1993


Box 1 Folder 22 Correspondence, undated


Box 1 Folder 23 Diary and Ephemera, 1994-1995


Box 1 Folder 24 Photocards Received by S.E., undated


Box 1 Folder 25 Contact Addresses and Business Cards, undated


Box 1 Folder 26 Travel Information, Brochures, and Clippings, 1953-1996


Box 1 Folder 27 SSI and TIAA Information, 1979-1990


Box 1 Folder 28 Medical Claims and Information, 1963-1994


Box 1 Folder 29 Jewish Home for the Aged, 1995


Tax Returns


Box 1 Folder 30-31 1960-1979, 2 folders



Box 2 Folder 1-6 1980-1994, 6 folders


Bank Statements


Box 2 Folder 9 1979-1992


Box 2 Folder 7-8 1969-1992, 2 folders

These statements raise the question of why an account for a "Munir Djody" was opened with Eilenberg's Columbia address as its mailing address; based on cancelled checks made out to cash, various art dealers, banks, and Eilenberg himself, this account does indeed seem to have been connected with Eilenberg's art collecting activities.

Series II: Art Collection Documents and Correspondence, 1902-1994

This series provides considerable material documenting Eilenberg's collecting activities over a period of 40 years. Although the bulk of the series concerns his Indian and East Asian art collection, the series also provides evidence of his earlier collecting in other areas: coins, meerschaum pipes, and European art. The series combines documents pertaining to the acquisition and care of his art collection with considerable correspondence, much of it concerning art loans or bequests of art objects to collections in the U.S, Europe, and Israel. Overview information about Eilenberg's art collection and information about major bequests he made has been placed at the beginning of the series, and information about his other collections placed at the end, along with collection minutiae (e.g. storage & transportation documents), photos of his collection holdings, and printed articles about art and archaeology. Material within each individual filing unit is organized chronologically, with undated material at the end.

The series also illustrates the truly worldwide nature of Eilenberg's collecting activities and sphere of correspondence, which included art dealers and contacts in Indonesia, Pakistan, Indonesia, Thailand, Ceylon, Japan, and throughout India, as well as correspondents in England, France, Holland, Switzerland, Germany, and Sweden—not to mention a great many individual curators and private collectors throughout the United States and Europe (Box 3, 8-24). Eilenberg's art activities brought him into frequent contact with museum directors, university presidents, curators, and art dealers, all seeking to cultivate relationships, as well as private collectors the likes of Avery Brundage and John D. Rockefeller III, whose 1962 letter expressed how "Mrs. Rockefeller and I greatly appreciated your stopping by the other evening to see some of our Asian art" and to provide an expert opinion on it (Box 3, Folder 4).


Box 2 Folder 10 Eilenberg Endowed Math Chair Art Bequest, 1987-1989

This folder documents Eilenberg's most significant single bequest, his 1989 gift of $1.5 million worth of Indian and East Asian art to Columbia, which, in turn, sold the artworks to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in order to use the proceeds to endow the Eilenberg Visiting Professorship in Math.


Box 2 Folder 11 Endowed South East Asian Art Chair Proposal, 1991

A 1991 proposal for Columbia to create an endowed chair in South Asian Art, the focus of Eilenberg's collection, with an identical $1.5 million endowment (see Folder 10).


Box 2 Folder 12 American Friends of Israel Museum Bequest and Loans, 1983-1994


Box 2 Folder 13 Exhibits, Catalogs of SE's Collection, 1955-1991


Box 2 Folder 14 Eilenberg - Rosen Art Partnership, 1978-1991


Correspondence and Documents

These papers document Eilenberg's loans, gifts, and bequests to a remarkable range of other institutions, in particular the Victoria & Albert Museum, British Museum, Friends of Israel Museum, Metropolitan Museum, Brooklyn Museum, Asia Society, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Cleveland Museum of Art, Philadelphia Museum of Art, and University of Missouri Museum of Art & Archaeology. The objects of Eilenberg's benefactions thus spanned the entire U.S., in addition to reaching Britain and Israel.


Box 2 Folder 15 Met, 1956-1992


Box 2 Folder 16 Asia Society, 1959-1993


University of Missouri Museum

The sequence of documents pertaining to the University of Missouri Museum, an institution to which Eilenberg made frequent and substantial gifts for over 20 years, has an especially interesting conclusion, and perhaps a revealing one: a 1987 letter from the museum director in which he regretfully refuses several proffered gifts, citing concerns over "questions of provenance [and about] the circumstances of export and import."


Box 2 Folder 17 Inventory of Gifts, 1963-1987


Box 2 Folder 18 1966-1977

(Saul Weinberg)


Box 2 Folder 19 Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1970-1989


Box 2 Folder 20 LA Museum, 1984

(Light of Asia Show)


Box 2 Folder 21 Cleveland Museum of Art, 1956-1986


Box 2 Folder 22 George Bickford, 1957-1962

(Cleveland Museum)


Box 2 Folder 23 Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1963-1982


Other U.S. Museums


Box 2 Folder 24 1954-1965



Box 3 Folder 1 1972-1994


Box 3 Folder 2 U.S. Art Dealers, 1955-1992


Box 3 Folder 3 Peter Marks, 1963-1994

(New York Art Dealer)


Box 3 Folder 4 U.S. Art Collectors, 1952-1959


Box 3 Folder 5 U.S. Art Collectors and Scholars, 1960-1994


Box 3 Folder 6 England - Correspondence and Invoices, 1956-1987


Box 3 Folder 7 Victoria and Albert, 1955-1993

John Irwin, Curator of Eastern Art at the Victoria & Albert Museum, assessed the value of Eilenberg's collection's at "more than a million [English] pounds at 1973 prices" and he added that Eilenberg's offer of it to the museum—in exchange for what amounted to a lifetime annuity paying 12,000 pounds a year—"constitutes by far the most important offer of oriental art that has ever come to the Museum . . . a major even in the history of the Museum." Even taking into account of the desire of those on less-lofty perches to cultivate Eilenberg's good will and largesse, the evident respect with which he was regarded by major art experts is striking in this series; curators and museum directors address him as a peer in terms of expertise in the field of Indian and East Asian art. This is typified by the correspondence with John Irwin, which progresses from a cordial but formal level to a friendly and collegial one in which he and Eilenberg even begin to collaborate on a book on Indian Art.


Box 3 Folder 8 Spink and Son, 1959-1984


Box 3 Folder 9-10 Holland, 1955-1982, 2 folders


Box 3 Folder 11 France, 1959-1981


Box 3 Folder 12 Switzerland, 1956-1979


Box 3 Folder 13 Germany - Correspondence and Invoices, 1958-1990


Box 3 Folder 14 Sweden, 1967-1968


Box 3 Folder 15 Miscellaneous European Collectors, 1958-1980


Correspondence and Invoices


Box 3 Folder 16-17 India, 1956-1992, 2 folders


Box 3 Folder 18-19 Indonesia, 1965-1982, 2 folders


Box 3 Folder 20 Bangkok, 1965-1977


Box 3 Folder 21 Japan, 1956-1976


Box 3 Folder 22 Pakistan, 1972-1981


Box 3 Folder 23 Ceylon, 1974-1976


Box 3 Folder 24 Asia, 1957-1986


Box 3 Folder 25 Correspondence and Theft Claims: Operation "High Roller", 1970-1978


Box 3 Folder 26 Stolen Art Alerts and Photographs, 1979-1980


Art


Box 3 Folder 27 Storage and Transportation Documents, 1958-1990


Box 3 Folder 28 Conservation and Supplies, 1958-1980


Box 3 Folder 29 Symposia and Memberships, 1955-1991


Box 3 Folder 30 Objects Search, undated


Box 3 Folder 31 Objects Notes, 1961


Box 3 Folder 32 Bahram III Iranian Coin, 1955-1957

This folder contains various references to Eilenberg's publication of articles about aspects of not only Indian and East Asian Art, but also ancient coins and the figures they depicted.


Box 3 Folder 33 Numismatics Correspondence and Inventory, 1955-1959


Box 3 Folder 34 French Tapestry Fragment, 1972


Box 3 Folder 35 Manuscript Sheets in Non-Western Alphabet, undated


Box 3 Folder 36 Bookstore Invoices and Art "Book Object Search", 1955-1989


Box 3 Folder 37 Art Auction Catalogs, 1989-1993


Box 3 Folder 38 Select Art Clippings, 1960-1992



Box 4 Folder 1 Preservation Articles and Publications, 1983


Box 4 Folder 2 Art Illustration and Catalogs, undated


Art Collection


Box 4 Folder 3 Photography Documents, 1958-1977


Box 4 Folder 4 Photos, 1984-1994


Box 4 Folder 5-6 Copies of Revista de la Universidad De Buenos Aires, 1902-1946, 2 folders

Series III: Math Notes, Writings, and Correspondence, 1930-1994

This series contains Eilenberg's math notes and writings—a great many of which he left undated—and his math-related correspondence, a good deal of which is dated, at least in part. The series primarily includes: Eilenberg's hand-written math notes; what seem to be drafts or revisions of chapters of math books he authored or co-authored; photo-copies of math notes, chapter drafts, or revisions, often hand-annotated; correspondence with fellow-mathematicians about math questions or their joint efforts; possible lecture or class notes; copies of math papers or articles that Eilenberg filed in with his own notes (and which have been left in with his writings to preserve original order, as well as for the light they potentially shed on the genesis of his math work). Although most of the material in this series is in English, Eilenberg's student notebook is in Polish (Box 4, Folder 7), and other material is in French and German. Apart from Eilenberg's dated Polish notebook (1930-34), which fittingly begins the series, the rest of these mostly undated math notes and book chapters is organized by topic: the more substantial book chapters, revisions, and outlines are followed by a number of folders on various math topics, lecture or class notes, articles by Eilenberg, and math correspondence, respectively.

The chapter drafts and revisions from various Eilenberg books form the largest portion of this series (Box 4, Folders 8-28; Box 5, Folders 1-27). Among the chapters themselves, the largest group appears to be connected with two volumes on General and Categorical Topology, works upon which Eilenberg collaborated with Eldon Dyer, but not published until 2000 by Cambridge University Press, two years after Eilenberg's death (Box 4, Folders 27-28; Box 5, Folders 1-27). The series also contains quite a bit of correspondence with Dyer, other book-related notes, and some of Dyer's own writings on the topic, some of which is dated (Box 6, Folders 1-6). This material thus documents one of in a series of "collaborations" with other mathematicians for which Eilenberg was renowned by other mathematicians.


Box 4 Folder 7 Math Notebook, 1930-1934


Box 4 Folder 8 Algebraic Topology Book Outline and Revision Notes, undated


Box 4 Folder 9-11 Universal Algebra Chapters 1-2, undated, 3 folders


Algebra Book


Box 4 Folder 12-15 Outline and Chapters 1-4, undated, 4 folders


Box 4 Folder 16 Chapters and Correspondence, 1968


Box 4 Folder 17 Dyck Set Theorems, undated

(Chapter 12)


Box 4 Folder 18 Algebra Reserve Notes and Correspondence, 1971



Box 9 Algebra, Topology, and Category Theory, 1976

(Collection of Papers in Honor of Samuel Eilenberg, edd. Alex Heller and Myles Tierney. Academic Press, New York, 1976 (2 copies, one specially bound in gilt-stamped leather))


Advanced Homot



Box 4 Folder 19 Chapter 9: Function Pi, undated


Box 4 Folder 20 Chapter 10, undated


Box 4 Folder 21 And James Const., undated


Automata


Box 4 Folder 22 Notes, undated


Box 4 Folder 23 Turing Machines Notes, 1968


Box 4 Folder 24 Machines Languages and Grammars, undated


Box 4 Folder 25 Turing Machines Notes and Correspondence, 1969


Box 4 Folder 26 Chapter Revisions, undated



Box 9 Automata, Languages & Machines, 1974, 2 Volumes

(Academic Press, New York)


Topology Book



Box 4 Folder 27 TOC, Index and Chapter 1, undated


Box 4 Folder 28 Chapter 2: Topological Spaces, undated



Box 5 Folder 1 Chapter 3: Basic Structures, undated


Box 5 Folder 2 Chapters 4-5: Connectedness . . . Compactness . . ., undated


Box 5 Folder 3 Chapters 7-8: Groups and Group-Actions, undated


Box 5 Folder 4 Revision Notes, undated


Box 5 Folder 5 Chapters 1-3: Category Theory, undated


Box 5 Folder 6 Chapters 4-6: Category Theory II, undated


Box 5 Folder 7 Chapters 8-9: Cellular Spaces, undated


Box 5 Folder 8 Chapter 1: Topological Spaces, undated


Box 5 Folder 9-10 Chapter 1: Groupoids, undated, 2 folders


Box 5 Folder 11 Chapter 3: Category W, undated


Box 5 Folder 12-15 Chapters 1-4: Fibrations, undated, 4 folders


Box 5 Folder 16-17 Chapter 4: Cubes and Mixing Theorems, undated, 2 folders


Box 5 Folder 18 Chapter 1: Homotopy Theory, undated


Coverings and Pseudo-Coverings


Box 5 Folder 19 Chapter 3, undated


Box 5 Folder 20-21 Chapter 4, undated, 2 folders


Box 5 Folder 22 Chapter 4: Coreflective Subcategories, undated


Box 5 Folder 23 Chapters 6-7: Homotopy, Algebraic Structures, undated


Box 5 Folder 24 Chapter 7: Fiber Homotopy Equivalence, undated


Box 5 Folder 25 Chapters 8-9: Fibrations, Homotopy Groups, undated


Box 5 Folder 26 Chapters 10, 12, 16: Co-Fribations, undated


Box 5 Folder 27 General Topology Revisions, undated



Box 6 Folder 1 Topology Book Notes and Correspondence, 1966-1982

(Eldon Dyer)


Box 6 Folder 2 Cellular Spaces Topology Book Notes and Correspondence, 1983-1991

(Eldon Dyer)


Box 6 Folder 3 Dyer-Eilenberg Topology Book Notes, undated


Box 6 Folder 4 Dyer-Eilenberg Bundles Notes, undated


Box 6 Folder 5 Topology Book "Eldon's Bundle Ms", undated


Box 6 Folder 6 Cohomology Theories, undated

(Eldon Dyer)


Box 6 Folder 7 Appearance Matrix Notes, undated


Box 6 Folder 8 Bass-Serre Notes, undated


Box 6 Folder 9 Cartesian Closure, undated


Box 6 Folder 10 Categories and Groupoids, undated


Box 6 Folder 11 The Category O, undated


Box 6 Folder 12-13 Category Melange, undated, 2 folders


Box 6 Folder 14 Closure Principles Notes and Correspondence, undated



Box 9 Collected Papers of Samuel Eilenberg & Sanders MacLane: 1941-1955, undated

(Private binding of co-authored math papers previously printed in Transactions of the American Mathematical Society)



Box 6 Folder 15 Computation Algorithm, undated


Box 6 Folder 16 Factorization and Groups, undated


Box 6 Folder 17 Fibrations, 1982


Box 6 Folder 18 Fibrations and Cofibrations, undated


Box 6 Folder 19 Fixed Point Theorem, undated



Box 9 Foundations of Algebraic Topology, undated

(with Norman Steenrod, Princeton University Press)


Fridge



Box 6 Folder 20 Notes, undated


Box 6 Folder 21-22 Vol. A Notes and Correspondence, 1969-1970, 2 folders


Box 6 Folder 23 Fridge - B Notes, undated


Box 6 Folder 24 Function Space Problem, undated


Box 6 Folder 25 Highman, undated



Box 9 Homological Algebra, 1956

(with Henri Cartan, Princeton Mathematical Series)



Box 6 Folder 26 Linear Theories, undated


Box 6 Folder 27 M-Complex, undated


Box 6 Folder 28 Manifolds, undated


Box 6 Folder 29-30 Orders of Growth, undated, 2 folders


Box 6 Folder 31 Playing with Cubes, undated



Box 9 Samuel Eilenberg: Papers, 1933-1948, 3 Volumes

(Private binding of math papers previously printed in various math journals from 1933-1948)



Box 6 Folder 32 Simplical Approximation Theorem: Notes and Articles, 1988


Box 6 Folder 33 Smooth Spaces, undated


Box 6 Folder 34 Topology, undated



Box 7 Folder 1 Topology, undated


Box 7 Folder 2 Topological Categories, undated


Box 7 Folder 3 Math Notes, undated


Box 7 Folder 4 Remarks, 1982 April 15


Box 7 Folder 5 Remarks of Fibrations, undated


Box 7 Folder 6 Remarks on Basal, undated


Box 7 Folder 7 1st Class S.E., undated


Box 7 Folder 8 Cartesian Spheres: Article and Correspondence, 1985-1986


Box 7 Folder 9 Fibrations Articles and Notes, 1988


Box 7 Folder 10 Normal Forms Article Draft, undated


Box 7 Folder 11 Karol Borsuk Article, 1992


Box 7 Folder 12 Book Proposal and Correspondence: Collected Works of Witold Huzewiz, 1991


Box 7 Folder 13 Math Correspondence with Henri Cartan/Jean Berstel, 1965-1971


Math Correspondence and Articles


Box 7 Folder 14 Ross Street, 1980-1991


Box 7 Folder 15-16 Bret Tilson, 1984-1985, 2 folders


Correspondence


Box 7 Folder 17 With Other Math Colleagues, 1977-1994


Box 7 Folder 18 On Math Conferences and Symposia, 1981-1994


Box 7 Folder 19 With Math Book Publisher, 1991


Box 7 Folder 20 National Academy of Science Correspondence and Article on Anti-Semitism, 1992

Series IV: Select Math Papers and Copies of Articles Published by Others, 1933-1993

This series comprises printed versions of math papers delivered by colleagues, select math clippings, a few copies of students' papers, and photo-copies of math articles published by others that Eilenberg thought worth preserving; unlike the papers and articles in Series III however, no body of correspondence accompanies these items. This series is organized by type of material, with math papers followed by photo-copies of printed articles.

Of particular interest are materials relating to commemorative math papers and conferences honoring Eilenberg (Box 7, Folders 21-22). These conferences were held at the CUNY Graduate Center in 1974 (in connection with Eilenberg's 60th birthday the prior year) and at Columbia in 1984, and a special paper was delivered in 1993 by Andre Joyal and Myles Tierny in honor of Eilenberg's 80th birthday. Sanders MacLane also delivered a paper (undated) discussing Group Extension in the light of Eilenberg's interest and work. The 1974 CUNY conference led to a 1976 publication of the papers that were presented, augmented with additional ones, in a book entitled Algebra, Topology, and Category Theory (A Collection of Papers in Honor of Samuel Eilenberg), which bore a dedication from his "former students and associates." Among those contributing papers were: MacLane, Eldon Dyer, Maurice Auslander, Alex Rosenberg, Myles Tierney, and John Rhodes. This book was one which Eilenberg retained with his papers (one copy specially bound in gilt-stamped leather), and photo-copies of the table of contents listing of papers and authors, short profiles of the participants, and the dedication have also been added to Folder 21.


Box 7 Folder 21 Commemorative Papers and Conferences in Honor of S.E., 1974-1993


Box 7 Folder 22 Sanders MacLane's "Group Extensions" Paper on S.E.'s Contribution, undated


Box 7 Folder 23 Select Math Clippings, 1942-1989


Math Papers


Box 7 Folder 24 Sent to S.E. by Authors, 1959-1991


Box 7 Folder 25 James Lepowsky, 1993


Box 7 Folder 26 Bret Tilson, 1985-1988


Box 7 Folder 27 Other Authors, 1976-1993


Box 7 Folder 28 Student Papers, undated


Math Article Copies


Box 7 Folder 29-30 Groupoids and Combined Group Theory, 1958-1979, 2 folders


Box 7 Folder 31 Highman, 1972-1973


Box 7 Folder 32-33 Topology and Spaces, 1929-1989, 2 folders


Box 7 Folder 34 1933-1977



Box 8 Folder 1-2 1978-1993, 2 folders

Series V: Legal Documents, 1956-1989

This series is composed of legal documents, most of which concern the protracted and costly litigation stemming from Eilenberg's 1969 divorce from Natasha. Box 8, Folder 3 contains Eilenberg's Last Will & Testament, in addition to their legal separation and final divorce settlement papers. Some of this material is also pertinent to Eilenberg's Indian and East Asian art collection, since one of the allegations made by Natasha was that he was concealing the true extent and value of this collection, or even selling off parts of it covertly. Specific art collection inventories and other legal exhibits appear in Folders 4-6, but the collection is a consistently recurrent topic in many of the legal documents throughout the series. Additional complications (and further delay of a final divorce settlement) was provided by the separate, but closely related case of "Eilenberg v. Gemberling," where Eilenberg brought suit over a proposed Christies' auction of some art objects previously stolen from him while in storage (Folders 16-17). The series is organized by type of material.


Box 8 Folder 3 Will, Divorce, and Settlement Documents, 1969-1989


Box 8 Folder 4-5 Lawyer's Files re: Art Collection Inventory and Exhibits, 1956-1984, 2 folders


Box 8 Folder 6 Khmer Collection Inventory and Documents, 1974


Box 8 Folder 7-8 Legal Briefs and Appeal, 1981-1982, 2 folders


Box 8 Folder 9 Examination Before Trial, 1977


Box 8 Folder 10-15 Divorce Legal Documents, 1974-1982, 6 folders


Eilenberg v. Gemberling


Box 8 Folder 16 Documents, 1979-1980


Box 8 Folder 17 Correspondence, 1979-1980


Box 8 Folder 18-20 Legal Correspondence, 1975-1983, 3 folders


Box 8 Folder 21 S.E.'s Correspondence with Lawyers, 1974-1984

Series VI: Oversize Items, 1930-1991

This series includes oversize items: academic diplomas, honorary doctorates, certificates of other honors and awards, along with a few other large items. These include Eilenberg's honorary doctoral diplomas, his 1936 doctoral diploma, and other Polish academic diplomas. This series is arranged chronologically and housed in an oversize box and tube boxes.



Oversize Box 10 Polska Akademic Nauk Honorary Doctorate Diploma, 1991


Oversize Box 10 Colombia Honorary Doctorate Diploma, 1987


Oversize Box 10 New York Metropolitan Museum Benefactor Certificate, 1987


Oversize Box 10 University of Pennsylvania Honorary Doctorate Album, 1985


Oversize Box 10 Brandeis University Honorary Doctorate Diploma, 1980


Oversize Box 10 Columbia Great Teacher Award Certificate, 1973


Oversize Box 10 Doctoral Diploma: Universitas Joseph Pilsudski Varsovienis, Warsaw, 1936


Oversize Box 10 Mathematics Diploma: University of Warsaw, 1934


Oversize Box 10 Polish School Diploma, 1930


Oversize Box 10 Large Portrait Photograph of Eilenberg, undated


Oversize Box 10 2 Large Photographs of Art Collection Frieze, undated



Tube Box 11 University of Pennsylvania Honorary Doctorate Diploma, 1985



Tube Box 12 Autographed Thea Bass Concert Poster, 1988

Series VII: Photographs, circa 1920-1990

This series contains a photograph album and various loose photos of Samuel Eilenberg, his friends, and associates over the years. The album contains photographic prints of Eilenberg as a youth and young man in Poland, as well as shots of various family and friends. The album is undated, as are many of the photographs in the manuscript box. Since the album includes photos of Eilenberg as a youth in Poland, as well as shots of him as a young professional, its photos can be tentatively dated as circa 1920-1948. The loose prints, collected and kept by Eilenberg over the years, include formal portraits, duplicates of photos used for identity and travel documents, and pictures during his travels. Of particular interest are the duplicate photos used for some of Eilenberg's identity cards from the 1940s (some signed in typical fashion as those used in passports), as well as him as an older man. In addition, there are scenes from Eilenberg travels, him teaching, a small set of reproductions of photos from Poland, and one sketch portrait of Eilenberg. As a group, the loose photos and sketch can be dated ca. 1940-90.



Oversize Box 13 Photo Album, circa 1920-1948



Box 14 Folder 1 Portraits, Samuel Eilenberg, circa 1915-1990


Box 14 Folder 2 Samuel Eilenberg at Conferences and Symposia, 1953-1988


Box 14 Folder 3 Teaching and Academia, 1987


Box 14 Folder 4 Samuel Eilenberg with Friends and Colleagues, 1972-1993


Box 14 Folder 5 Travels, 1963-1974


Box 14 Folder 6 Sketch Portrait, 1990