Over the years, Dr. David Kahn made many significant donations of cryptology-related items to the Foundation for the National Cryptologic Museum. The Foundation’s Acquisition Chairman traveled to New York in early March 2014 to pick up five boxes of books, journals, research notes, personal correspondence, and memorabilia. The donation included 37 English-language and 18 foreign-language books on codes and ciphers spanning nearly five centuries of cryptologic history.
One of the “novel” items in this donation was a publisher’s picture puzzle of the front-cover of Dr. Kahn’s preeminent work, The Codebreakers. This was the 13th donation from Dr. Kahn over the preview ten years. A photo of the partial stack of donated items is included here.
A sample of Dr. David Kahn's donations from early 2014.