The Kahn Collection includes political cartoon art materials created in the United States and internationally covering a variety of subjects offering humorous social commentary and criticism on political topics of the day. The collection totals more than 14,220 items.

Michael Kahn was born in Buffalo, New York on February 4, 1949. He moved to Southern California with Otto, his German immigrant father, and Eleanor, his New York-born mother, in 1951 and attended public schools in Los Angeles. He graduated from James Monroe High School in the San Fernando Valley and attended UCLA from 1966-1970, where he graduated magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa and was selected one of twenty honor seniors in a class of several thousand. He subsequently attended Stanford University enrolling simultaneously in the Law School and a PhD political science program. He graduated in 1973 after serving as the book review editor of the Stanford Law Review. He finished the entire PhD program but did not write a thesis and was awarded an MA in Political Science.

43.3 linear feet (20 boxes, 1 map folder)

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