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
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
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
Box 2 Folder 19
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1970-1989
Box 2 Folder 20
LA Museum, 1984
Box 2 Folder 21
Cleveland Museum of Art, 1956-1986
Box 2 Folder 22
George Bickford, 1957-1962
Box 2 Folder 23
Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1963-1982
Other U.S. Museums
Box 3 Folder 2
U.S. Art Dealers, 1955-1992
Box 3 Folder 3
Peter Marks, 1963-1994
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
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
Box 6 Folder 2
Cellular Spaces Topology Book Notes and Correspondence, 1983-1991
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
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 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