Albert Eugene Kahn papers
name: label: Creator
content: Kahn, Albert Eugene, 1912-1979
label: Names
content: Kent, Rockwell, 1882-1971
topic: label: Occupation
content: Photographers -- California -- Glen Ellen
label: Topic
content: Social action -- California
label: Topic
content: Photography, Artistic -- California
label: Topic
content: Artists -- Political activity -- California
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Lent for microfilming 1980-1981 by Henriette Kahn, Kahn's widow.
creator: label: Creator
content: Kahn, Albert Eugene, 1912-1979
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Photographer, social activist, and author; Glen Ellen, Calif. Kahn was a close friend of Rockwell Kent.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 858 Items ((on 2 microfilm reels))
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1948-1970
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.kahnalbe
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: 35mm microfilm reels 2030 and 2300 available at Archives of American Art offices and through interlibrary loan.
originalsloc: label: Existence and Location of Originals
content: Originals returned to lender, Mrs. Albert Kahn, after microfilming.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Correspondence and printed material, mainly regarding Rockwell Kent.
label: Scope and Contents
content: REEL 2033: Correspondence with Rockwell Kent; carbon copies of letters from Kent to newspaper editors, politicians, and political activists, including Harold Kastner, J. Howard McGrath, Senator William Benton, Thomas E. Dewey, Nikita Khrushchev, and others; carbon copies of letters to Kent from Diego Rivera, Eliot White, and others; a copy of a letter from Darwin J. Meserole to Harry S. Truman; letters from Sally Kent and Henriette ("Riette") Kahn, containing newspaper clippings, a typescript of a poem from Rockwell Kent to Riette, a price list with the titles and dimensions of Kent's paintings, and writings by Kahn on Kent; and printed material relating to political activities.
label: Scope and Contents
content: REEL 2300: Correspondence primarily with Kahn and Kent; letters from H. K. Thompson, Jr., Dan Burne Jones, and others; and letters from Kent to Lyndon B. Johnson, Leon Berney, and others. Some letters contain typescripts of writings by Kahn and Kent and printed materials.