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Robert A. Jacobs (1905-1993) was an American architect. Jacobs graduated from Amherst College and Columbia University's School of Architecture and spent his early years working for Le Corbusier in Paris and Wallace K. Harrison in New York. In 1940, he partnered with Ely Jacques Kahn to form Kahn & Jacobs (later in 1972 the firm merged with Hellmuth, Obata & Kassabaum). For forty years the firm designed and built numerous structures in New York City, including the American Airlines terminal at Kennedy International Airport, the office building One Astor Plaza, and the Municipal Asphalt Plant at 90th Street and East River Drive, named by the Museum of Modern Art as one of the best designs of the 1930s and 1940s.

Jacobs was a fellow of the American Institute of Architects and a member of the Architectural League of New York.

From the guide to the Robert A. Jacobs Photographs, 1918-1949, (Special Collections Research Center, Syracuse University Libraries)
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creatorOf Buchman & Deisler. [Bloomingdale's] [graphic] : [store, annex, arcade, office building; alterations] [Part 10] / Buchman and Deisler, Arch'ts ; Buchman and Fox, Arch'ts ; Buchman & Kahn, Architects ; Ely Jacques Kahn, Architects ; Kahn & Jacobs, Arch'ts. Columbia University in the City of New York, Columbia University Libraries
creatorOf Buchman & Deisler. [Bloomingdale's] [graphic] : [store, annex, arcade, office building; alterations] [Part 4] / Buchman and deisler, Arch'ts ; Buchman and Fox, Arch'ts ; Buchman & Kahn, Architects ; Ely Jacques Kahn, Architects ; Kahn and Jacobs, Arch'ts. Columbia University in the City of New York, Columbia University Libraries
creatorOf Buchman & Deisler. [Bloomingdale's] [graphic] : [store, annex, arcade, office building; alterations] [Part 11] / Buchman and Deisler, Arch'ts ; Buchman and Fox, Arch'ts ; Buchman & Kahn, Architects ; Ely Jacques Kahn, Architects ; Kahn & Jacobs, Arch'ts. Columbia University in the City of New York, Columbia University Libraries
creatorOf Buchman & Deisler. [Bloomingdale's] [graphic] : [store, annex, arcade, office building; alterations] [Part 2] / Buchman and Deisler, Arch'ts ; Buchman and Fox, Arch'ts ; Buchman & Kahn, Architects ; Ely Jacques Kahn, Architects ; Kahn and Jacobs, Arch'ts. Columbia University in the City of New York, Columbia University Libraries
creatorOf Kahn & Jacobs. Kahn & Jacobs architectural drawings and papers, circa 1893-1965, (bulk, circa 1893-1950). Columbia University in the City of New York, Columbia University Libraries
creatorOf Jacobs, Robert Allan. Letter, 1951, to Lewis Mumford. University of Pennsylvania Libraries, Van Pelt Library
creatorOf Buchman & Deisler. [Bloomingdale's] [graphic] : [store, annex, arcade, office building; alterations] [Part 7] / Buchman and Deisler, Arch'ts ; Buchman and Fox, Arch'ts ; Buchman & Kahn, Architects ; Ely Jacques Kahn, Architects ; Kahn & Jacobs, Arch'ts. Columbia University in the City of New York, Columbia University Libraries
creatorOf Robert A. Jacobs Photographs, 1918-1949 Syracuse University. Library. Special Collections Research Center
creatorOf Ely Jacques Kahn & Eliel Saarinen, Architects (Firm). Hudnut Building [at] 693-695 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y., [graphic] : [with alterations and additions] : [Part 1] / Ely Jacques Kahn, Eliel Saarinen, assoc. architects. Columbia University in the City of New York, Columbia University Libraries
creatorOf Buchman & Deisler. [Bloomingdale's] [graphic] : [store, annex, arcade, office building; alterations] [Part 5] / Buchman and Deisler, Arch'ts ; Buchman and Fox, Arch'ts ; Buchman & Kahn, Architects ; Ely Jacques Kahn, Architects ; Kahn & Jacobs, Arch'ts. Columbia University in the City of New York, Columbia University Libraries
creatorOf Buchman & Deisler. [Bloomingdale's] [graphic] : [store, annex, arcade, office building; alterations] [Part 1] / Buchman and Deisler, Arch'ts ; Buchman and Fox, Arch'ts ; Buchman & Kahn, Architects ; Ely Jacques Kahn, Architects ; Kahn and Jacobs, Arch'ts. Columbia University in the City of New York, Columbia University Libraries
creatorOf Buchman & Deisler. [Bloomingdale's] [graphic] : [store, annex, arcade, office building; alterations] [Part 6] / Buchman and Deisler, Arch'ts ; Buchman and Fox, Arch'ts ; Buchman & Kahn, Architects ; Ely Jacques Kahn, Architects ; Kahn & Jacobs, Arch'ts. Columbia University in the City of New York, Columbia University Libraries
creatorOf Buchman & Deisler. [Bloomingdale's] [graphic] : [store, annex, arcade, office building; alterations] [Part 8] / Buchman and Deisler, Arch'ts ; Buchman and Fox, Arch'ts ; Buchman & Kahn, Architects ; Ely Jacques Kahn, Architects ; Kahn & Jacobs, Arch'ts. Columbia University in the City of New York, Columbia University Libraries
creatorOf Buchman & Deisler. [Bloomingdale's] [graphic] : [store, annex, arcade, office building; alterations] [Part 9] / Buchman and Deisler, Arch'ts ; Buchman and Fox, Arch'ts ; Buchman & Kahn, Architects ; Ely Jacques Kahn, Architects ; Kahn & Jacobs, Arch'ts. Columbia University in the City of New York, Columbia University Libraries
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