Guide to the Ellsworth Milton and Alice Statler Papers,
1896-1961

Collection Number: 3879

Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library

Contact Information:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
2B Carl A. Kroch Library
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY 14853
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Compiled by:
B. Huth
Date completed:
November 1986
EAD encoding:
Martin Heggestad, May 2003
Date modified:
RMC Staff, May 2013

© 2002 Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library

DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY

Title:
Ellsworth Milton and Alice Statler papers, 1896-1961.
Collection Number:
3879
Creator:
Ellsworth Milton Statler, 1863-1928.
Quantity:
4.5 cubic ft.
Forms of Material:
Company documents, scrapbooks and letters.
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
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.
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.
Language:
Collection material in English

COLLECTION DESCRIPTION

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.
SUBJECTS

Names:
Statler, Ellsworth Milton, 1863-1928.
Statler, Alice.
Hotels Statler Company.
Statler Hotels Delaware Corporation.

Subjects:
Hotels.

Form and Genre Terms:
Scrapbooks.
INFORMATION FOR USERS

Cite As:
Ellsworth Milton and Alice Statler papers, #3879. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.
CONTAINER LIST

Date
Description
Container
Series I. Documents and Miscellany
1 envelope of Hotels Statler Company, Inc. Original documents (see attached list).
Box 1
1914-1917
1 folder of Stockholders' Lists.
 Box 1
1928
2 scrapbooks of E.M. Statler obituaries.
 Box 1
2 scrapbooks of clippings and letters about Mrs. E.M. (Alice) Statler.
Box 1
1921-1928
1 volume of "Bulletin for Department Meetings."
 Box 1
1954
1 volume of Statler Hotels Delaware Corporation, "Certain Basic Corporate Documents."
Box 1
1 folder of General-Corporate Organization Papers.
 Box 1
Nov. 17, 1927
1 folder, photostatic copy of E.M. Statler's will, 9 pp.
 Box 1
1896-1901
Scrapbook.
 Box 2
1901-1904
Scrapbook.
 Box 2
1925-1928
Scrapbook.
 Box 2
1956, 1961
2 Special Award Certificates.
 Box 2
1928
1 large tribute book for E.M. Statler.
 Volume
1922-1955
Mostly all photographs.
 Box 3
Correspondence, typescript of The Statler Story by A.M. Statler, and misc.
Box 4
Awards and phonograph recordings.
 Box 5
EM Statler Mason certificate, award
 Box 7
1950
Accounting Records, Hotel Statler
 Box 5
March 29, 1918
Four-page hand-written letter from E. M. Statler to Frank A. McKowne - manuscript folder
Folder
Series II. Records
Album of (8) 78 RPM phonograph records.
 Volume
EM Statler, "Let's Dramatize Our Work"
Box 6 SR-1937
EM Statler, "Indifference to Guests"
Box 6 SR-1938
EM Statler, "A Good Disposition is a Good Asset"
Box 6 SR-1939
EM Statler, "Guests who Refuse to be Satisfied--And Our Service Report System"
Box 6 SR-1940
EM Statler, "A Letter of Robert E. Lee to his Son"
Box 6 SR-1941
Pan American Coffee Bureau, "Coffee Please!"
 Box 6 SR-1942
General Foods Corporation: An Institutional Food Service Division Presentation. "The Successful Waitress." Part 2
Box 6 SR-1943
"The Holiday Inn Maid."
 Box 6 SR-1944
Special Education Program of Hotel Greeters of America, prepared by Lewis. "The Over-eager Cook","The Abandoned Baby."
 Box 6 SR-1945
"Handling without Hands", Metropolitan Wire Goods Corp.
Box 6 SR-1946
General Food Corporation, "The Successful Waitress" Part 1
 Box 6 SR-1947
"Handling Without Hands"
 Box 6 SR-1948
Sarra, Inc. "A Career with Standard"
 Box 6 SR-1949
WHCU Ithaca, "How not to--How to Interview"
 Box 6 SR-1950
Vitrola, Ave Maria (Schubert-Wilhelm)
 Box 6 SR-1951
"The Guest who Didn't Check-out","The Too Friendly Reservation."
 Box 6 SR-1952
"The Phoney Friend","The Banquet Speakers' Rooms"
 Box 6 SR-1953
"The Unwanted Four: Germs that cause Food Poisoning", National Restaurant Association
 Box 6 SR-1954
"The Freeloaders: Food Service Pest Control", National Restaurant Association
 Box 6 SR-1955
1968
"It's Yours at the Statler"
 Box 6 SR-1956
1946
"Statler Roundup", parts 5-6
 Box 6 SR-1957
Coffee Brewing Institute, "Speciality of the House" Urn Method for Brewing Coffee", "Specialty of the House: Vacuum Method for Brewing Coffee"
Box 7 SR-1958
November 13, 1944
Liberty Mutual Insurance, "Smoothing the Flow of Restaurant Hospitality"
 Box 7 SR-1959
American Hotel Association, "Every Employee a Salesman"
 Box 7 SR-1960
Stouffer Restaurant Corporation, "Food for Thought"
 Box 7 SR-1961
Anerican Hotel Association, "Fire Prevention"
 Box 7 SR-1962
American Hotel Association, "Food Service"
 Box 7 SR-1963
"American Hotel Association, "Preparing the Guest Room"
 Box 7 SR-1964
American Hotel Association, "Rooming the Guest"
 Box 7 SR-1965
American Hotel Association, "Front Office Courtesy"
 Box 7 SR-1966