Kraus, Henry, 1905-1995
Educator, Historian
Size: ca. 6.0 linear ft.
Summary: Manuscripts, publications, notes and notebooks, photocopies of articles, outlines, contact sheets, negatives, photographs, newspaper clippings, catalogs, magazines, and miscellany relating to Kraus' work as a labor activist and, with his wife Dorothy, historian of medieval art and architecture.
Historian, educator, labor organizer; Cleveland, Ohio and Paris, France. Among his books are: The Many and the Few: A Chronicle of the Dynamic Auto Workers; Gold Was the Mortar: the Economics of Cathedral Building; and with co-author Dorothy Kraus, The Gothic Choirstalls of Spain.
Donated 1996 by Dorothy Kraus.
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Henry and Dorothy Kraus papers, [ca. 1930-1990]. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
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