This collection is comprised of four folders (containing correspondence, programs, booklets, catalogues, a photograph, and a pen and ink portrait of Harriet Levy) and ten photographic posters. The correspondence are letters from Louise and Eric Mendelsohn about the Museum of Architecture and related matters. The catalog includes a photo of one of Elise Haas' sculptures. Nineteen books donated with the collection were relocated to the Colman Library, WJHC.

Elise Stern Haas was a patron of the arts, civic leader, and member of the pioneering family that founded Levi Strauss and Co. The wife of Walter A Haas, Sr., Elise was the first woman president of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and of Mt. Zion Hospital and Medical Center. She was a founder of the San Francisco Youth Symphony Association and chairperson of the Stern Grove Festival Association, which her mother, Rosalie Meyer Stern, founded. Elise Haas also headed the San Francisco League of Women Voters and the Visiting Nurse Association. In addition to contributing generously to the arts, Haas was a sculptor and art collector. Haas had three children, Walter, Jr., Peter, and Rhoda. (Taken from obituaries in the SF Examiner and Jewish Bulletin.)

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