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Resources related to Balthazar Korab are listed below. Materials at the Library, both inside and outside of the Prints & Photographs Division, are first. Materials outside of the Library in collections that have a noteworthy amount of documents or photographic works related to Balthazar Korab are listed in the second tab. The last tab includes major published works for which Korab contributed the bulk of imagery, or the text is about his work.
A small number of photographs by Korab have been found in the New York World Telegram & Sun Collection and in the Historic American Building Survey.
4 DVDs and 7 VHS cassettes were transferred to the Moving Image Research Center. Separation notices and surrogate images of the covers of the audio visual materials have been placed in the relevant folder in the collection.
A limited amount of correspondence between the Korab studio and the office of Mies van der Rohe can be found in the Manuscript Division.
The resources listed below have more significant holdings of material related to Korab. Not listed below are collections that have a small amount of relevant material or repositories that do not currently have a reliable way of searching for relevant projects or names.
The titles listed below link to fuller bibliographic information in the Library of Congress Online Catalog. Links for additional online content are included when available.
The photography of Balthazar Korab has been used in publications and presentations across the globe. A more comprehensive bibliography is available upon request, and significant sources are cited in the monograph by John Comazzi.
Items from the "Eero Saarinen book project, 2005-2008" were published in, Eero Saarinen: Buildings from the Balthazar Korab Archive, edited by David G. De Long and C. Ford Peatross. The book was published in 2008 by Norton / Library of Congress as part of the Visual Sourcebooks in Architecture, Design, and Engineering series. It can be accessed in the Prints and Photographs Reading Room under call number: NA737 .S28A4 2008 P&P Ref
The following books are major works by or about Balthazar Korab and are held in one of the Library's Reading Rooms. Check the Item Availability for information to determine if the Prints & Photographs Division has its own copy or if the book is in the General Collections of the Main Reading Room.