Guide to the Hotels Statler Company Records,
1918-1971

Collection Number: 4303

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
(607) 255-3530
Fax: (607) 255-9524
rareref@cornell.edu
http://rmc.library.cornell.edu
Compiled by:
M.E. Warren
Date completed:
Feb. 1995
EAD encoding:
Ann Hubert, July 2003

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


DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY

Title:
Hotels Statler Company records, 1918-1971.
Collection Number:
4303
Creator:
Carl G., Thurston
Quantity:
5 cubic ft.
Forms of Material:
Manuals, instructions, surveys, historical records, publications, newsletters, and memorabilia.
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Abstract:
Statler standard instruction manuals for accounting and finance, housekeeping, employee training and job descriptions; folders on the history of the hotels, instructions and procedures, wage surveys; sales and convention information; executive training materials; publications, newsletters, and memorabilia. Also includes newsletters and other items relating to the Statler Alumni Club.
Language:
Collection material in English


COLLECTION DESCRIPTION

Statler standard instruction manuals for accounting and finance, housekeeping, employee training and job descriptions; folders on the history of the hotels, instructions and procedures, wage surveys; sales and convention information; executive training materials; publications, newsletters, and memorabilia. Also includes newsletters and other items relating to the Statler Alumni Club.

SUBJECTS

Names:
Thurston, Carl G.,
Hotels Statler Company.
Statler Alumni Club.

Subjects:
Hotel management.
Hotels--Employees.
Hotels--Finance.
Hotel housekeeping.


INFORMATION FOR USERS

Cite As:
Hotels Statler Company records, #4303. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.

CONTAINER LIST

Date
Description
Container
1948-1952
Accounting Manual
Box 1 Folder 1-3
1948-1952
Accounting Manual
Box 1 Folder 4-6
1950-1951
Management Development Conferences
Box 1 Folder 7-8
1943-1974
Management Development in the Hotel Industry
Box 1 Folder 9-10
1932
Hotel Pennsylvania - Telephone Operating Practice
Box 1 Folder 11
1948-1954
Standard Instructions - Accounting; Other Departments A25000, copy for Mr. Bone
Box 1 Folder 12
1950
Standard Instructions - Auditing; Miscellaneous A2000, copy for Mr. Bone
Box 1 Folder 13
1954
Standard Instructions - Payroll A6000, copy for Mr. Bone
Box 1 Folder 14
1948
Classification of Accounts
Box 1 Folder 15
1948-1952
Standard Instructions - Credit
Box 1 Folder 16
1944-1954
Tax Instruction Manual
Box 1 Folder 17-19
1885,1928
Sales Manual - Hotel Statler, Buffalo
Box 1 Folder 20
Convention Facts - Hotel Statler, Buffalo
Box 1 Folder 21
1926-1927
Constructive Talks to Pivot Men
Box 1 Folder 22-24
1925-1926
Bulletins
Box 1 Folder 25-26
1953-1954
Hartford, Connecticut
Box 1 Folder 27-29
1952
Report on System and Procedures
Box 1 Folder 30
1953
Employee Training, AHA Convention, Montreal
Box 1 Folder 31
1952-1960
Wage Analysis - New York State Hotel Association
Box 1 Folder 32-34
1953
Annual Report
Box 1 Folder 35
1954
Statler Personnel Managers' Conference
Box 1 Folder 36
1932-1971
C.G. Thurston - Housekeeping
Box 2 Folder 1
1949-1974
Training - H.S. Co. - Thurston
Box 2 Folder 2
1927
C.G. Thurston - Duties and Responsibilities
Box 2 Folder 3
1953
General Survey of Hotels Statler
Box 2 Folder 4
1947-1951
History of Hotels Statler
Box 2 Folder 5
1948-1974
Housekeeping
Box 2 Folder 6
1939-1952
Personnel Manager Papers (Miscellaneous)
Box 2 Folder 7
1938-1952
Procedures
Box 2 Folder 8-9
1931-1939
Service Department - Standard Instructions
Box 2 Folder 10
1951
Strike
Box 2 Folder 11
1931-1953
Standard Instructions
Box 2 Folder 12
1951-1973
Turnover Studies
Box 2 Folder 13
1949,1951
Wage Survey
Box 2 Folder 14
1937-1954,1983
Miscellaneous File #1
Box 2 Folder 15
1926-1952
Miscellaneous File #2
Box 2 Folder 16
1986
School of Hotel Administration
Box 2 Folder 17-18
Hotel Ezra Cornell (HEC)
Box 2 Folder 19-22
1985
HEC 60
Box 2 Folder 23-24
1967-1968
Thomas E. Silk Board Room
Box 2 Folder 25-26
Standard Recipes
Box 2 Folder 27
Standard Bar Recipes
Box 2 Folder 28-30
1955
Safety Council Manual
Box 2 Folder 31
1948-1949
Annual Reports
Box 2 Folder 32
1953-1954
Hotel Monthly - Los Angeles Statler and Hartford Statler
Box 2 Folder 33
Statler Articles
Box 2 Folder 34
1943
Statler - Washington D.C. (reprint)
Box 2 Folder 35
1953
Hotel Management - Los Angeles Statler
Box 2 Folder 36
1950
The Hotel World - Review: 75 Years of Hotel History
Box 2 Folder 37
1984-1986
Statler Club Alumni News
Box 2 Folder 38
1987-1988
Statler Club Alumni News
Box 2 Folder 39
1955
Housekeeping Manual (2 copies)
Box 2 Folder 40-41
Statler Memorabilia
Box 3
Coffee can, ash tray, dinner plate, HEC photograph album, brick "From the first permanent Statler Hotel" - Hotel Statler, Buffalo, N.Y.
Printed Material
Box 4
Material includes Statler News, 1939-1954; America's Extraordinary Hotelman Statler by Floyd Miller, 1968; The Story of the Los Angeles Statler; Architecture - Waldorf-Astoria, 1931; instructional and other pamphlets; miscellaneous memorabilia
Pastel of E.M. Statler
Box 5 Folder 1
Photograph of the Centennial Freshman Class at Cornell University Centennial Banquet
Box 5 Folder 2
1949
Dinner given by James McCabe
Box 5 Folder 3
Hotel Statler - Boston
Box 5 Folder 4
1953
Hotel Statler Employees' Choral Club - Buffalo
Box 5 Folder 5
1947
20 Year Employees - Hotel Statler, Boston
Box 5 Folder 6
1946
Dinner Given by James McCabe
Box 5 Folder 7
1947
Dinner Given by James McCabe
Box 5 Folder 8
1933
11th Annual Christmas Party
Box 5 Folder 9
1949
Statler Bowling Tournament
Box 5 Folder 10
1950
Statler Bowling Tournament
Box 5 Folder 11
1952
Hotels Statler Co., Inc. Founders Day Dinner
Box 5 Folder 12
1951
Hotels Statler Co., Inc. Founders Day
Box 5 Folder 13
1950
Hotel Statler Executive Office Christmas Party
Box 5 Folder 14
1948
Farewell Dinner Party to Don Mumford
Box 5 Folder 15
1947
4th Annual Founders Day Dinner
Box 5 Folder 16
1942
Mr. McCabe's Dinner
Box 5 Folder 17
1941
Mr. McCabe's Dinner
Box 5 Folder 18
1937
Mr. McKowne's Dinner
Box 5 Folder 19
1950
Dinner Given by James McCabe
Box 5 Folder 20
1918
Saturday Evening Post - Hotels Statler
Box 5 Folder 21
1919
Newspaper "Public Ledger - Philadelphia" - article about opening of Hotel Pennsylvania
Box 5 Folder 22
Photograph of E.M. Statler
Box 5 Folder 23
ca. 1927
"Class" Quotes and Policies by E.M. Statler
Box 5 Folder 24
"It's Yours at the Statler Hotel" - music, reading, information
Box 5 Folder 25