Albin O. Kuhn Library & Gallery

This Collection is organized into eight Series: I. Council, II. Meetings, III. Committees, IV. Financial, V. Historian, VI. Publications, VII. Affiliated Societies, VIII.

Series I: Council – Box I – III

Subseries:

1. Councillors
2. Executive Director
3. President
4. Secretary/Treasurer

Series II: Meetings – Box III – VI

Subseries:

1. Annual/Business
2. Council
3. Executive Committee .
4. International Congress of Immunology

Series III: Committees – Box VI – VII

Series IV: Financial – Box VII – IX

Series V: Historian – Box VIII – IX

Subseries:

1. Personal
2. Photographs

Series VI: Publications – Box IX – X

Series VII: Affiliated Societies – Box X – XI

Series VIII: Video and Audio Tapes – Box – XII

The records in this collection were donated in a single gift on March 29, 1996. The donation was approved by Dr. Michelle Hogan and the materials transferred from the Society’s offices in Bethesda, MD.

This collection was processed by Sharon Knecht under the supervision of Maria Frank Peri and completed in November 2001.

The majority of the records were found to be in relatively good order since the bulk of them were the files of Executive Director Dr. Joe Saunders. There were very few financial or membership records included in the acquisition. Committee files containing reports were occasionally filed separately but the more often were found interspersed with meeting files. The remaining records have been organized by type of activity based on the order in which they were received.

Multiple copies have been disposed of whenever there were more than two copies of a given document.

No materials were found for the early years of the Association (1913 –1960s) with the exception of a few pieces of correspondence of past Presidents. These documents had been gathered first by the Association Historian, Merrill Chase and later by the Executive Director, Joe Saunders. Correspondence and Minutes indicate that there was a discussion about sending the association archives to the University of Wisconsin, but it is not clear if that was ever done.

Related materials: American Academy of Allergy and Immunology, American Society for Experimental Pathology, International Congress of Immunology, Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology, International Union of Immunological Societies, New York Academy of Science.