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The series Classes (Boxes 97-104; and box 118) contains information on classes and individual graduates from 1870 to 1909. Documentation includes reunion information, class "records" detailing the status of members of particular classes as well as obituary information on deceased class members. Information on classes is scattered throughout the record group. Several folders of emeritus reunion classes also pertain to various classes. Related material on classes from 1894 to 1963 is located in the Class Reunion Files series (Boxes 148-154).

The Class Reunion Files (boxes 148-154) series spans the period 1924 to 1993 and contains information on classes from 1894 to 1963. The series is arranged by classes according to the years in which they graduated. Much of the material reflects the mechanics or organizing reunions, but news on class members and lists of former students are often present in these files.

The Albums Containing Furniture, Fabrics, Ironwork and Terra Cotta Samples series consists of 22 scrapbooks that contain photographs and drawings of decorative arts pieces used by Kahn in the designs of both the interiors and exteriors of a number of his projects, built between 1913 and 1926. Researchers interested in Kahn's selection of furniture, fabrics and decorative architectural elements for such buildings as the Detroit Athletic Club, the University of Michigan Natural Science Building and Hill Auditorium, the Standard Club of Chicago, the Evening News Building, King's Theatre and Detroit Trust Company, among others, will find these albums of great interest. Many of them were prepared by W. & J. Sloane, the renowned interior design firm and furniture and rug store in New York, which serviced prominent clients across the country during its 94-year history (1891-1985).