Collections and Finding Aids

The archival records in the Shelby White and Leon Levy Archives Center include official correspondence of the Director's Office, minutes of meetings of the Faculty and the Board of Trustees, correspondence concerning past Faculty and Members, records of the Electronic Computer Project, and papers of select Faculty members. The archives also include the Institute's photograph collection and a growing oral history collection.

Administrative records:

• Association of Members of the Institute for Advanced Study (AMIAS) records, 1974-1995.
• Board of Trustees records, 1930-2013.
• Comptroller records, 1850-1991 [bulk 1942-1948].
• Computing Department records, 1980-1993.
• Director's Office: Development files, 1978-2015.
• Director's Office: Director Frank Aydelotte files, 1927-1957 [bulk 1939-1947].
• Director’s Office: Director Carl Kaysen files, 1946-1976.
• Director’s Office: Director Marvin Goldberger files, 1987-1991.
• Director's Office: Director Phillip Griffiths files, 1991-1999.
• Director's Office: Director Peter Goddard files, 1976-2010.
• Director's Office: General files, 1920-2000 [bulk 1930-1986].
• Director's Office: Associate Director and Secretary of the Corporation John Hunt files, 1975-1981.
• Director's Office: Comptroller and General Manager Minot Morgan files, 1946-1979.
• Director's Office: Associate Director and Treasurer Allen Rowe files, 1939-2003 [bulk 1977-2001].
• Director's Office: Assistant to the Director for Community Affairs Mary Wisnovsky files, 1977-1989.
• Director's Office: Facilities records, 1980-2014.
• Director's Office: Faculty files, 1923-2016.
• Director's Office: Faculty General files, 1933-2000.
• Director's Office: Schools files, 1933-1992.
• Director's Office: Members files, 1933-2002 [bulk 1933-1989].
• Director's Office: Visitors and Assistants files, 1935-2005.
• Director's Office: Decadal Review files, 1956-2009.
• Director's Office: Electronic Computer Project records, 1946-1969.
• Electronic Computer Project records, 1940-1967.
• Electronic Computer Project: West Building Storage records, 1931-1958.
• Library records, 1930-2016.
• Institute publications, 1920-2016.
• School of Economics and Politics and School of Humanistic Studies records, 1934-1981.
• School of Historical Studies records, 1936-2016.
• School of Mathematics records, 1935-2016.
• School of Natural Sciences records, 1930-2008.
• School of Social Science records, 1970-2014.
• Park City Mathematics Institute Records, 1993-2003.
• Oral History Project files and recordings, 1988-2016.
• The Institute Register, 1933-2000.

Professional papers and manuscript collections:

• Stephen L. Adler papers.
• John N. Bahcall papers, 1955-2005 [bulk 1971-2005].
• Arne Beurling papers, 1955-1971.
• Julian Bigelow papers, 1929-1993 [bulk 1946-1988].
• James R. Blackwood collection, 1934-1936.
• Armand Borel papers, 1957-2003.
• Glen W. Bowersock papers, 1974-2011.
• Marshall Clagett papers, 1964-2006.
• Giles Constable papers, 1970-2004.
• Patricia Crone papers, 1967-2015.
• Pierre Deligne papers, 1962-2005.
• J. Richardson Dilworth papers, 1964-1985.
• T.S. Eliot correspondence, 1946-1963 [bulk 1948].
• Michael V. Forrestal papers, 1976-1988.
• Clifford Geertz papers, 1930-2007 [bulk 1970-2000].
• Kurt Gödel papers, 1905-1980 [bulk 1930-1970], on deposit at Princeton University; digitally available
• Oleg Grabar papers, 1947-2010.
• John R. Hardin papers, 1930-1945.
• Harish-Chandra papers, 1946-1984.
• Lily Harish-Chandra collection, 1987-2000.
• Anna Stafford Henriques collection, 1933-1935.
• Marianne Iceland collection, 1941-1954.
• Ernst Kantorowicz lectures, 1943-1949.
• Ernst Kantorowicz correspondence, 1940-1942, 1950-1963.
• Kezia and Nico Knauer and Harold Cherniss correspondence, 1980-1984.
• Kezia and Nico Knauer and Homer Thompson correspondence, 1974-1996.
• Deane Montgomery papers, 1930-1989 [bulk 1951-1989].
• Louise Morse collection, 1940-1956.
• Otto Nathan correspondence, 1955.
• Otto Neugebauer papers, 1917-1990 [bulk 1921-1955].
• Gerda Soergel Panofsky collection, 1945-1967.
• Peter Paret papers, 1993-1994.
• George Placzek papers, 1932-1955.
• Atle Selberg papers, 1920-2005 [bulk 1951-2005].
• Kenneth Setton papers, 1950-1990.
• Dorothy Morgenstern Thomas collection, 1964, 1971.
• Oswald Veblen and Elizabeth Richardson Veblen papers and photographs, 1878-1963 [bulk 1948-1963].
• Hermann Weyl papers, 1938-1955.
• Morton White papers, 1970-2010.
• Beatrice Stern research files, 1930-1964 [bulk 1955-1964].

IAS faculty and directors' manuscript collections held by other repositories:

• Albert Einstein; Einstein Archives Online.
• Andrew Alföldi papers. Hungarian National Museum.
• Frank Aydelotte papers, 1905-1956. Swarthmore College.
• Arne Beurling papers. Uppsala University.
• Armand Borel papers, 1942-2004. Bibliothèque de Genève.
• Jule Charney papers, 1921-1981. Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
• Marshall Clagett papers. American Philosophical Society.
• Giles Constable papers, 1969-1970. Harvard University.
• Paul A.M. Dirac papers, 1788-1999. Florida State University.
• Edward Mead Earle papers, 1894-1954. Princeton University.
• Abraham Flexner papers, 1865-1989 [bulk 1900-1959]. Library of Congress.
• Flexner Family archives at Vanderbilt, 1920-1989. Vanderbilt University.
• Paul Frankl papers, 1900-1974. Princeton University.
• Clifford Geertz papers, 1930-2007. University of Chicago.
• Felix Gilbert papers, 1889-1990. Hoover Institution.
• Marvin L. Goldberger papers, 1959-1987 [bulk 1969-1987]. California Institute of Technology.
• Herman H Goldstine collection, 1941-1971 [bulk 1943-1948]. Hampshire College.
• Herman Goldstine papers, 1934-1996. American Philosophical Society.
• Oleg Grabar papers, 1898-2009. The Getty Research Institute.
• Harish-Chandra papers. (Tata Institute for Fundamental Research.)
• Ernst Herzfeld papers, 1899-1962.Smithsonian Institution.
• Ernst Herzfeld papers, 1890-1943 [bulk 1900-1930]. Metropolitan Museum of Art.
• Albert O. Hirschman papers, 1900-2004 [bulk 1950-2000]. Princeton University.
• Ernst Kantorowicz collection, 1908-1982. Leo Baeck Institute.
• George F. Kennan papers, 1861-2014 [bulk 1950-2000]. Princeton University.
• Elias A. Lowe papers. The Morgan Library and Museum.
• E.A. Lowe collection. Library of Congress.
• Jack and Rebecca Matlock Papers, 1930s-2017. Duke University Libraries.
• Millard Meiss papers, [ca. 1920-1975]. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
• Benjamin Dean Meritt papers, 1935-1989. American Philosophical Society.
• David Mitrany papers, 1920-1965. London School of Economics.
• Marston Morse papers, 1902-1980. Harvard University.
• Otto Neugebauer papers, 1949-1984. University of Michigan.
• J. Robert Oppenheimer papers, 1799-1980 [bulk 1947-1967]. Library of Congress.
• Abraham Pais papers, 1875-2000 [bulk 1936-1998]. Rockefeller University.
• Erwin Panofsky papers, 1904-1990 [bulk 1920-1968]. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
• Peter Paret papers, 1945-1992. Stanford University.
• George Placzek papers, 1934-1955. American Institute of Physics.
• Marshall Rosenbluth papers, 1960-2003. University of California, San Diego.
• Bengt Strömgren papers, 1915-1977. University of Aarhus.
• Homer A. Thompson papers, 1929-1996. American School of Classical Studies at Athens.
• Kirk Varnedoe papers, 1890-2006 [bulk 1970-2003]. Getty Research Institution.
• Oswald Veblen papers, 1881-1960 [bulk 1920-1960]. Library of Congress.
• Jacob Viner papers, 1909-1979 [bulk 1930-1960]. Princeton University.
• John von Neumann papers, 1912-2000 [bulk 1953-1963]. Library of Congress.
• André Weil papers. Institut de France Academie des Sciences.
• Kurt Weitzmann papers, 1930-1991. Princeton University.
• Hermann Weyl manuscripts and correspondence. ETH Zurich.
• Morton Gabriel White personal archives, 1940-2007. Harvard University.
• Hassler Whitney papers, 1930-1987. Harvard University.
• Harry Woolf papers, 1923-2003. Johns Hopkins University.