Hotels Statler Company records, 1885-1988.
Collection Number: 4303
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library
DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY
Title:
Hotels Statler Company records, 1885-1988.
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Collection Number:
4303
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.
Creator:
Thurston, Carl G.
Quanitities:
5.6 cubic feet.
Language:
Collection material in English
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.
INFORMATION FOR USERS
Hotels Statler Company records, #4303. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections,
Cornell University Library.
Names:
Hotels Statler Company
Statler Alumni Club
Subjects:
Hotel housekeeping.
Hotels, taverns, etc. -- Finance.
Hotels, taverns, etc. -- Employees.
Hotel management.
Form and Genre Terms:
Photographs.
CONTAINER LIST
Container
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Description
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Date
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Box 1 | Folder 1-3 |
Accounting Manual
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1948-1952 |
Box 1 | Folder 4-6 |
Accounting Manual
|
1948-1952 |
Box 1 | Folder 7-8 |
Management Development Conferences
|
1950-1951 |
Box 1 | Folder 9-10 |
Management Development in the Hotel Industry
|
1943-1974 |
Box 1 | Folder 11 |
Hotel Pennsylvania - Telephone Operating Practice
|
1932 |
Box 1 | Folder 12 |
Standard Instructions - Accounting; Other Departments A25000, copy for Mr. Bone
|
1948-1954 |
Box 1 | Folder 13 |
Standard Instructions - Auditing; Miscellaneous A2000, copy for Mr. Bone
|
1950 |
Box 1 | Folder 14 |
Standard Instructions - Payroll A6000, copy for Mr. Bone
|
1954 |
Box 1 | Folder 15 |
Classification of Accounts
|
1948 |
Box 1 | Folder 16 |
Standard Instructions - Credit
|
1948-1952 |
Box 1 | Folder 17-19 |
Tax Instruction Manual
|
1944-1954 |
Box 1 | Folder 20 |
Sales Manual - Hotel Statler, Buffalo
|
1885, 1928 |
Box 1 | Folder 21 |
Convention Facts - Hotel Statler, Buffalo
|
|
Box 1 | Folder 22-24 |
Constructive Talks to Pivot Men
|
1926-1927 |
Box 1 | Folder 25-26 |
Bulletins
|
1925-1926 |
Box 1 | Folder 27-29 |
Hartford, Connecticut
|
1953-1954 |
Box 1 | Folder 30 |
Report on System and Procedures
|
1952 |
Box 1 | Folder 31 |
Employee Training, AHA Convention, Montreal
|
1953 |
Box 1 | Folder 32-34 |
Wage Analysis - New York State Hotel Association
|
1952-1960 |
Box 1 | Folder 35 |
Annual Report
|
1953 |
Box 1 | Folder 36 |
Statler Personnel Managers' Conference
|
1954 |
Box 2 | Folder 1 |
C.G. Thurston - Housekeeping
|
1932-1971 |
Box 2 | Folder 2 |
Training - H.S. Co. - Thurston
|
1949-1974 |
Box 2 | Folder 3 |
C.G. Thurston - Duties and Responsibilities
|
1927 |
Box 2 | Folder 4 |
General Survey of Hotels Statler
|
1953 |
Box 2 | Folder 5 |
History of Hotels Statler
|
1947-1951 |
Box 2 | Folder 6 |
Housekeeping
|
1948-1974 |
Box 2 | Folder 7 |
Personnel Manager Papers (Miscellaneous)
|
1939-1952 |
Box 2 | Folder 8-9 |
Procedures
|
1938-1952 |
Box 2 | Folder 10 |
Service Department - Standard Instructions
|
1931-1939 |
Box 2 | Folder 11 |
Strike
|
1951 |
Box 2 | Folder 12 |
Standard Instructions
|
1931-1953 |
Box 2 | Folder 13 |
Turnover Studies
|
1951-1973 |
Box 2 | Folder 14 |
Wage Survey
|
1949, 1951 |
Box 2 | Folder 15 |
Miscellaneous File #1
|
1937-1954, 1983 |
Box 2 | Folder 16 |
Miscellaneous File #2
|
1926-1952 |
Box 2 | Folder 17-18 |
School of Hotel Administration
|
1986 |
Box 2 | Folder 19-22 |
Hotel Ezra Cornell (HEC)
|
|
Box 2 | Folder 23-24 |
HEC 60
|
1985 |
Box 2 | Folder 25-26 |
Thomas E. Silk Board Room
|
1967-1968 |
Box 2 | Folder 27 |
Standard Recipes
|
|
Box 2 | Folder 28-30 |
Standard Bar Recipes
|
|
Box 2 | Folder 31 |
Safety Council Manual
|
1955 |
Box 2 | Folder 32 |
Annual Reports
|
1948-1949 |
Box 2 | Folder 33 |
Hotel Monthly - Los Angeles Statler and Hartford Statler
|
1953-1954 |
Box 2 | Folder 34 |
Statler Articles
|
|
Box 2 | Folder 35 |
Statler - Washington D.C. (reprint)
|
1943 |
Box 2 | Folder 36 |
Hotel Management - Los Angeles Statler
|
1953 |
Box 2 | Folder 37 |
The Hotel World - Review: 75 Years of Hotel History
|
1950 |
Box 2 | Folder 38 |
Statler Club Alumni News
|
1984-1986 |
Box 2 | Folder 39 |
Statler Club Alumni News
|
1987-1988 |
Box 2 | Folder 40-41 |
Housekeeping Manual (2 copies)
|
1955 |
Box 4 | Folder 1 |
Carl Thurston correspondence and memos concerning Hotels Statler Company
|
1947-1987 |
Box 3 |
Statler Memorabilia
|
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Scope and Contents
Coffee can, ash tray, dinner plate, HEC photograph album, marble paperweight inscribed
"Hotel Statler, Buffalo 1923-1984," brick "From the first permanent Statler Hotel"
- Hotel Statler, Buffalo, N.Y.
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Box 4 | Folder 2 |
Statler Guides
|
November 1937-January 1939 |
Box 4 | Folder 3 |
Statler Bulletins for Department Meetings
|
June 1925-Decenber 1927 |
Box 4 | Folder 4 |
Statler Bulletins for Department Meetings
|
January 1928-April 1929 |
Box 4 | Folder 5 |
Talks to Statler Salesmen
|
January 1929-December 1930 |
Box 4 | Folder 6 |
Statler Salesmanship
|
June 1923, 1931, June 1932 |
Box 4 | Folder 6 |
Talks to Department Heads
|
1938 |
Box 4 | Folder 6 |
Talks to Room Clerks; Talks to Waiters and Waitresses; Instructions to Room Service
Waiters, Bellmen, Maids
|
1929-1939 |
Box 4 | Folder 7 |
"Be a Clever Cover Girl: A Guide for Statler Waitresses" (2 copies)
|
1949 |
Box 4 | Folder 7 |
"Inside Statler" (2 copies)
|
1950 |
Box 4 | Folder 7 |
"Statler Service Codes"- booklets from three different years
|
no dates |
Box 4 | Folder 7 |
"The Successful Waitress" - General Foods Corp.
|
1963 |
Box 4 | Folder 7 |
"Statler Publicity"
|
1958 |
Box 4 | Folder 7 |
Hotel Statler Booklets from Buffalo, St. Louis, Detroit, Cleveland
|
no dates |
Box 4 | Folder 7 |
Hotel Credit Department Legal Guide and Practical Procedures"- Hotel Association of
New York City
|
1958 |
Box 4 | Folder 7 |
Hotel Statler Personnel Policies
|
1944 |
Box 4 | Folder 7 |
"The Efficiency Magazine"
|
October 1945 |
Box 4 | Folder 7 |
"Hotel" the magazine of the hotel workers of New York
|
November 1950 |
Box 4 | Folder 7 |
"The New York Hotel Story" - Industrial Bulletin
|
February 1951 |
Box 4 | Folder 8 |
"The Alarm Clock" - Monthly Bulletin issued by the staff of Horwath and Horwath
|
September 1928 |
Box 4 | Folder 8 |
Service Reports
|
1925 |
Box 4 | Folder 8 |
General Rules for Employees - Hotel Pennsylvania
|
no dates |
Box 4 | Folder 8 |
Hotel Management Clipping Bureau of Good Ideas
|
September 1940 |
Box 4 | Folder 8 |
Statler and Hilton Memo Books for Daily Follow-Up
|
September 1928 |
Box 4 | Folder 8 |
"When Good Fellows Get Together" - Wines and Liquors Manual
|
September 1933 |
Box 4 | Folder 8 |
Culinary Glossaries - Spanish, Austro-German, French, Italian - Wine and Food Society
|
no dates |
Box 4 | Folder 8 |
"Mine Hosts Handbook"
|
1934 |
Box 4 | Folder 8 |
Hotel McLure - Wheeling, West Virginia
|
no date |
Box 4 | Folder 9 |
"Architecture" - The Waldorf-Astoria Hotel
|
November 1931 |
Box 4 | Folder 9 |
Waldorf-Astoria Magazine
|
March 1935, February 1936 |
Box 4 | Folder 10 |
Postcards from various Statler Hotels, Statler Corkscrew, Decals
|
no dates |
Box 4 | Folder 11 |
"The Story of the Los Angeles Statler"
|
1953 |
Box 4 | Folder 11 |
Booklet and Menu from Opening of the Statler Center in Los Angeles
|
October 1952 |
Box 5 |
Pastel of E.M. Statler
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Box 5 |
Photograph of the Centennial Freshman Class at Cornell University Centennial Banquet
|
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Box 5 |
Photograph of Dinner given by James McCabe
|
1949 | |
Box 5 |
Photograph of Hotel Statler - Boston
|
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Box 5 |
Photograph of the Hotel Statler Employees' Choral Club - Buffalo
|
1953 | |
Box 5 |
Photograph of 20 Year Employees - Hotel Statler, Boston
|
1947 | |
Box 5 |
Photograph of Dinner Given by James McCabe
|
1946 | |
Box 5 |
Photograph of Dinner Given by James McCabe
|
1947 | |
Box 5 |
Photograph of 11th Annual Christmas Party
|
1933 | |
Box 5 |
Photograph of Statler Bowling Tournament
|
1949 | |
Box 5 |
Photograph of Statler Bowling Tournament
|
1950 | |
Box 5 |
Photograph of Hotels Statler Co., Inc. Founders Day Dinner
|
1952 | |
Box 5 |
Photograph of Hotels Statler Co., Inc. Founders Day
|
1951 | |
Box 5 |
Photograph of Hotel Statler Executive Office Christmas Party
|
1950 | |
Box 5 |
Photograph of Farewell Dinner Party to Don Mumford
|
1948 | |
Box 5 |
Photograph of 4th Annual Founders Day Dinner
|
1947 | |
Box 5 |
Photograph of Mr. McCabe's Dinner
|
1942 | |
Box 5 |
Photograph of Mr. McCabe's Dinner
|
1941 | |
Box 5 |
Photograph of Mr. McKowne's Dinner
|
1937 | |
Box 5 |
Photograph of Dinner Given by James McCabe
|
1950 | |
Box 5 |
Saturday Evening Post - Hotels Statler
|
1918 | |
Box 5 |
Newspaper "Public Ledger - Philadelphia" - article about opening of Hotel Pennsylvania
|
1919 | |
Box 5 |
"Class" Quotes and Policies by E.M. Statler
|
1927 | |
Addition to Collection - not donated by Carl Thurston
|
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Box 6 | Folder 1 |
Articles about Waiters in Bound Volume
|
1893 |
Box 6 | Folder 2 |
Hotel Stationery and Articles in Bound Volume
|
1898 |
Box 6 |
Scrapbook of Clippings - Courtesy Advertising
|
1908 | |
Box 6 |
Reproductions of Articles concerning the Statler Enterprises
|
1898-1928 | |
Box 6 |
Interim Report on Automation for Hotels by Profesoor C.I. Sayles
|
January 1961 | |
Box 6 |
"The Union Organization of the Miami Beach Hotels - By John Hanly
|
1962 | |
Box 6 |
"The Miami Beach Hotel Labor-Management Dispute March-August 1955" - by John Harney
|
1955 | |
Box 6 | Folder 3-6 |
Hotel and Restaurant History - Brochures, Publications
|
1920s-1960s |
Box 6 | Folder 7 |
Receipts from various hotels
|
1937-1938 |
Box 6 |
Banquet and Entertainment Price Schedules and Requirements
|
1937-1938 | |
Box 6 |
"Front of the House" - Lewis Hotel-Motel Schools - Five LP Phonograph records
|
no dates | |
Box 6 |
Speech on International Travel
|
no date | |
Box 6 | Folder 8 |
"An American Adventure" the story of Ellsworth Statler
|
1948 |
Box 6 | Folder 9 |
Photographs of Various Hotels
|
no dates |
Box 6 | Folder 10 |
Postcards of London
|
no dates |
Box 6 | Folder 11-15 |
Public Relations Achievement Award Competition - Waldorf-Astoria Entry
|
1981 |
Box 6 |
Statler Center Los Angeles Floor Plans
|
1951 | |
Box 6 |
Hotel Statler Hartford - Floor Plans
|
1953 | |
Box 7 |
Scrapbook containing articles about various hotels
|
1895-1930s | |
Box 7 |
Photo of President Harding and Letter to Oscar of the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel
|
1923-09 | |
Box 4 | Folder 12 |
Lewis Hotel Training Schools - Practice Work Sheets and Exams
|
1939-1940 |
Box 4 | Folder 13 |
Lewis Hotel Training Schools - Poster and Memos
|
1940 |
Box 4 | Folder 14 |
Button from hotel uniform
|