Title: Peter Kihss Papers
Inclusive Dates: 1938-1984

Creator:

• Kihss, Peter

Call Number: M87-305

Quantity: 25.6 c.f. (25 record center cartons and 2 archives boxes) and 14 photographs

Repository:

Wisconsin Historical Society, Division of Library, Archives, and Museum Collections

Archival Locations:

Wisconsin Historical Society (Map)

COLLECTION MAY BE STORED OFF-SITE: see catalog entry to request materials and for additional information.

Abstract:

Papers of Peter Kihss, an award-winning reporter who wrote for the New York Times for thirty out of the nearly fifty years of his career. His career began in 1933 as a reporter for the Associated Press after his graduation from Columbia University. He was a Pulitzer scholar and part-time correspondent for the Times in Uruguay and Argentina for a year, and then worked for several news organizations before joining the Times in 1952 as a general reporter. In 1984, the Fund for the City of New York established the Peter Kihss Award for outstanding reporting on New York City government and named Kihss the first recipient. The papers cover virtually all of Kihss's career in the form of his articles and news dispatches. Correspondence apparently was not saved until the 1960s.

Language: English

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After graduating from Columbia University in 1933, Kihss worked for The Associated Press, The Washington Post, The New York World-Telegram, The New York Herald Tribune and, finally, for thirty years, the New York Times. His papers include virtually all of his journalistic output in the form of articles and news dispatches. Included are compiled newspaper and magazine articles Kihss wrote, drafts, memos and correspondence, 1933-1983, arranged chronologically for the most part. Up until the 1960s, the correspondence is predominantly work-related, after this date the files include his general correspondence, as well. The collection also includes background files for topics Kihss reported on throughout his career, such as the urban development of New York City, nuclear weapons, Latvia, Puerto Rico's relations with the United States and the Chinese, Cuban and Haitian revolutions and materials related to Kihss's community and professional interests, such as brochures, newsletters and correspondence regarding the New York Newspaper Guild, Columbia's School of Journalism's Alumni Association and the manuscripts of histories he wrote of both the New York City Youth Board and his church, Christ Evangelical Lutheran. Photographs are of friends and family members.

Acquisition Information

Presented by Alice Kihss. Accession Number: M87-305

M87-305	Series: Articles written by Kihss, published in multiple newspapers Note: Files include drafts and correspondence.
Box   1	1933-1946
Box   2	1947-1952
Box   3	1953-1957
Box   4	1957-1961
Box   5	1960-1963
Box   6	1963-1965
Box   7	1965-1967
Box   8	1967-1968
Box   9	1969-1971
Box   10	1971-1973
Box   11	1973-1975
Box   12	1975-1977
Box   13	1977-1979
Box   14	1979-1981
Box   15	1981-1983
Box   16	1984
	Series: Personal	⇧
Box   17	Date books, 1968-1984
Box   17	Notebooks, 1952, 1958, 1982
Box   17	Identification, memorabilia
Box   17	Condolence letters and telegrams to Alice Kihss, 1985
PH Box   23	Photographs of friends and family members
	Series: Subject Files	⇧
Box   17	History of Christ Evangelical Lutheran Church, manuscript, 1980
Box   18	Columbia's Graduate School of Journalism Alumni Association, 1950-1967
Box   18	New York Times, management and development, 1952-1974
Box   18	Silurian's Award, 1971
Box   18	History of the New York City Youth Board, manuscript, 1980
Box   19	Newspaper Guild of New York, Local 3 of the American Newspaper Guild AFL-CIO, 1951-1970
Box   20-21	United Nations, 1948-1960
Box   22-23	Nuclear Weapons, Chemical Warfare
Box   24	Puerto Rico, 1953-1978
Box   25	Puerto Rico, 1967-1978
Box   25	Puerto Ricans in New York, 1967-1978
Box   26	New York City, urban development, 1966-1971
Box   27	Latvia, 1941-1952
Box   27	Latvian immigrants, 1977
Box   27	Korea, 1951-1953
Box   27	China, 1952-1961
Box   27	Cuban Revolution, 1953-1962
Box   27	Haitian Revolution, 1959-1966
Box   27	U.S. intervention in the Dominican Republic, 1965
Box   27	Chilé, 1973