Ellsworth Milton and Alice Statler papers, 1896-1961.
Collection Number: 3879
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library
DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY
Title:
Ellsworth Milton and Alice Statler papers, 1896-1961.
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Collection Number:
3879
Abstract:
Includes some original Hotels Statler Company documents; stockholders lists, 1914-1917;
two scrapbooks of E. M. Statler obituaries, 1928; photocopy of the Statler's will;
two scrapbooks of clippings and letters about Alice (Mrs. E. M.) Statler; Statler
Hotels Delaware Corporation documents; and other scrapbooks and documents. Also includes
78 rpm phonograph records.
Abstract:
Also, a four-page hand-written letter dated March 29, 1918 from E. M. Statler to Frank
A. McKowne, who was serving in the American Expeditionary Forces in France. Frank
McKowne was the assistant to Mr. Statler beginning in 1914 and served as president
of the Hotels Statler from 1928 until his retirement in 1945.
Creator:
Statler, Ellsworth Milton, 1863-1928.
Quanitities:
4.5 cubic feet.
Language:
Collection material in English
Includes some original Hotels Statler Company documents; stockholders lists, 1914-1917;
two scrapbooks of E. M. Statler obituaries, 1928; photocopy of the Statler's will;
two scrapbooks of clippings and letters about Alice (Mrs. E. M.) Statler; Statler
Hotels Delaware Corporation documents; and other scrapbooks and documents. Also includes
78 rpm phonograph records.
Also, a four-page hand-written letter dated March 29, 1918 from E. M. Statler to
Frank A. McKowne, who was serving in the American Expeditionary Forces in France.
Frank McKowne was the assistant to Mr. Statler beginning in 1914 and served as president
of the Hotels Statler from 1928 until his retirement in 1945.
INFORMATION FOR USERS
Ellsworth Milton and Alice Statler papers, #3879. Division of Rare and Manuscript
Collections, Cornell University Library.
The shovel used by Mrs. Statler to break ground for the construction of the Alice
Statler Auditorium, May 4, 1956 resides in Statler Hall.
Names:
Statler, Alice.
McKowne, Frank A.
Hotels Statler Company
Statler Hotels Delaware Corporation
Subjects:
Hotels.
Form and Genre Terms:
Scrapbooks.
CONTAINER LIST
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Container
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Description
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Date
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Series I. Documents and Miscellany
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| Box 1 |
1 envelope of Hotels Statler Company, Inc. Original documents (see attached list).
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| Box 1 |
1 folder of Stockholders' Lists.
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1914-1917 | |
| Box 1 |
2 scrapbooks of E.M. Statler obituaries.
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1928 | |
| Box 1 |
2 scrapbooks of clippings and letters about Mrs. E.M. (Alice) Statler.
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| Box 1 |
1 volume of "Bulletin for Department Meetings."
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1921-1928 | |
| Box 1 |
1 volume of Statler Hotels Delaware Corporation, "Certain Basic Corporate Documents."
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1954 | |
| Box 1 |
1 folder of General-Corporate Organization Papers.
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| Box 1 |
1 folder, photostatic copy of E.M. Statler's will, 9 pp.
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1927-11-17 | |
| Box 2 |
Scrapbook.
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1896-1901 | |
| Box 2 |
Scrapbook.
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1901-1904 | |
| Box 2 |
Scrapbook.
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1925-1928 | |
| Box 2 |
2 Special Award Certificates.
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1956, 1961 | |
| Volume 2 |
1 large tribute book for E.M. Statler.
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1928 | |
| Box 3 |
Mostly all photographs.
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1922-1955 | |
| Box 4 |
Correspondence, typescript of The Statler Story by A.M. Statler, and misc.
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| Box 5 |
Awards and phonograph recordings.
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| Box 7 |
EM Statler Mason certificate, award
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| Box 5 |
Accounting Records, Hotel Statler
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1950 | |
| Single Folder |
Four-page hand-written letter from E. M. Statler to Frank A. McKowne - manuscript
folder
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1918-03-29 | |
| Box 8 |
Binder "From the Files of E.M. Statler" presented to the Hotel School by Mrs. E.M.
Statler
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no date | |
| Box 8 |
"Hotel Man of the Half Century", by Kate D. Davis - article reprinted from the Southern
Hotel Journal
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1950-03 | |
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Series II. Records
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| Volume 1 |
Album of (8) 78 RPM phonograph records.
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| Box 6 | SR-1937 |
EM Statler, "Let's Dramatize Our Work"
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| Box 6 | SR-1938 |
EM Statler, "Indifference to Guests"
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| Box 6 | SR-1939 |
EM Statler, "A Good Disposition is a Good Asset"
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| Box 6 | SR-1940 |
EM Statler, "Guests who Refuse to be Satisfied--And Our Service Report System"
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| Box 6 | SR-1941 |
EM Statler, "A Letter of Robert E. Lee to his Son"
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| Box 6 | SR-1942 |
Pan American Coffee Bureau, "Coffee Please!"
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| Box 6 | SR-1943 |
General Foods Corporation: An Institutional Food Service Division Presentation. "The
Successful Waitress." Part 2
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| Box 6 | SR-1944 |
"The Holiday Inn Maid."
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| Box 6 | SR-1945 |
Special Education Program of Hotel Greeters of America, prepared by Lewis. "The Over-eager
Cook","The Abandoned Baby."
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| Box 6 | SR-1946 |
"Handling without Hands", Metropolitan Wire Goods Corp.
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| Box 6 | SR-1947 |
General Food Corporation, "The Successful Waitress" Part 1
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| Box 6 | SR-1948 |
"Handling Without Hands"
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| Box 6 | SR-1949 |
Sarra, Inc. "A Career with Standard"
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| Box 6 | SR-1950 |
WHCU Ithaca, "How not to--How to Interview"
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| Box 6 | SR-1951 |
Vitrola, Ave Maria (Schubert-Wilhelm)
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| Box 6 | SR-1952 |
"The Guest who Didn't Check-out","The Too Friendly Reservation."
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| Box 6 | SR-1953 |
"The Phoney Friend","The Banquet Speakers' Rooms"
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| Box 6 | SR-6342 |
"Emily Kimbrough Program" - Jonathan Harding (2 LPs)
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1953-07-31 |
| Box 6 | SR-1954 |
"The Unwanted Four: Germs that cause Food Poisoning", National Restaurant Association
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| Box 6 | SR-1955 |
"The Freeloaders: Food Service Pest Control", National Restaurant Association
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| Box 6 | SR-1956 |
"It's Yours at the Statler" (2 copies)
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1968 |
| Box 6 | SR-1957 |
"Statler Roundup", parts 5-6
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1946 |
| Box 6 | SR-6331-6335 |
"Statler Roundup", parts two, three, seven, ten, eleven
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| Box 7 | SR-1958 |
Coffee Brewing Institute, "Speciality of the House" Urn Method for Brewing Coffee",
"Specialty of the House: Vacuum Method for Brewing Coffee"
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| Box 7 | SR-1959 |
Liberty Mutual Insurance, "Smoothing the Flow of Restaurant Hospitality"
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1944-11-13 |
| Box 7 | SR-1960 |
American Hotel Association, "Every Employee a Salesman"
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| Box 7 | SR-1961 |
Stouffer Restaurant Corporation, "Food for Thought"
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| Box 7 | SR-1962 |
American Hotel Association, "Fire Prevention"
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| Box 7 | SR-1963 |
American Hotel Association, "Food Service"
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| Box 7 | SR-1964 |
American Hotel Association, "Preparing the Guest Room"
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| Box 7 | SR-1965 |
American Hotel Association, "Rooming the Guest"
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| Box 7 | SR-1966 |
American Hotel Association, "Front Office Courtesy"
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| Box 6 | SR-6336 |
"Change on the Table" - Waitress Training - Readers' Digest Presentation (includes
filmstrip in box 8)
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1969 |
| Box 6 | SR-6337-6338 |
"The Magic Touch" - Parts I and II - American Hotel and Motel Association (includes
filmstrips in box 8)
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1968 |
| Box 6 | SR-6339-6340 |
"I Like People" - Parts I and II - American Hotel and Motel Association (includes
filmstrips in box 8)
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1968 |
| Box 6 | SR-6341 |
"Investing in People" - National Restaurant Association (includes filmstrip in box
8)
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Series III. Tape Recordings
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| TR-10561a |
Statler Roundup
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1946-02-07 | |
| TR-10562a |
Statler Talk #5 - "It's Yours at the Statler"
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