Oscar Michel Tschirky papers
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COLLECTION DESCRIPTION
Includes six scrapbooks of clippings, telegrams, and correspondence on his career at the Waldorf-Astoria, ca. 1897-1950; one scrapbook of forms used at the hotel; two published booklets on staff functions; photographs of Oscar and his wife Sophie Bertisch Tschirky; and an etching and a sketch of the Waldorf-Astoria. Also scrapbooks, a guest book, a scrapbook of congratulatory letters from many famous personalities, and a tribute book given to the Tschirkys on their golden wedding anniversity, 1937.
Also, photograph of the 1890 Supreme Court, signed by each Justice.
Dates
- ca.1890-1958.
Creator
- Tschirky, Oscar, 1866-1950. (Person)
Language of Materials
Collection material in English
Conditions Governing Use
Due to the fragility and potential degradation of moving image and sound recordings, viewing and listening is limited to items that have been digitized. If an item is in another media format, you may request to have the item digitized for access. Information on ordering access copies may be found on the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections webpage. Audio visual material that has been digitized: F-2361-2367, SR-34042-34046.
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
Oscar Tschirky, Host of the Waldorf-Astoria, New York, was known as Oscar of the Waldorf.
Extent
7 cubic feet. (7 cubic feet. 6 scrapbooks.,)
Abstract
Includes six scrapbooks of clippings, telegrams, and correspondence on his career at the Waldorf-Astoria, ca. 1897-1950; one scrapbook of forms used at the hotel; two published booklets on staff functions; photographs of Oscar and his wife Sophie Bertisch Tschirky; and an etching and a sketch of the Waldorf-Astoria. Also scrapbooks, a guest book, a scrapbook of congratulatory letters from many famous personalities, and a tribute book given to the Tschirkys on their golden wedding anniversity, 1937.
Physical Description
Scrapbooks of clippings, telegrams, correspondence, and forms; photographs, an etching, a sketch, a guest book, and a tribute book.
General
- 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:
- B. Huth
- Date completed:
- August 1982
- EAD encoding:
- Martin Heggestad, April 2004
- Date modified:
- Jude Corina, July 2017
FAMOUS PERSONALITIES WHO WROTE CONGRATULATORY LETTERS TO OSCAR TSCHIRKY
- Jules S. Bache
- Bernard M. Baruch
- Nicholas Murray Butler
- Howard Chandler Christy
- Walter P. Chrysler
- Irvin S. Cobb
- Grace Coolidge
- Richard Crooks
- Thomas E. Dewey
- Charles Dana Gibson
- J. Edgar Hoover
- Fannie Hurst
- Herbert H. Lehman
- J. Harry Letsche
- James H. McGraw
- Henry Morgenthau
- Conde Nast
- Ethelbert Nevin
- John J. Pershing
- Ogden Reid
- Edward V. Rickenbacker
- Eleanor Roosevelt
- Nellie Taylor Ross
- Jacob Gould Schurman
- Alfred P. Sloan
- Edward R. Stettinius
- Arthur Hays Sulzberger
- William Sulzer
- Myron C. Taylor
- Walter C. Teagle
- Thomas J. Watson
- Felix M. Warburg
- Owen D. Young
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Compiled by B. Huth
- Date
- April 2004
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
Revision Statements
- 12/07/2018: This resource was modified by the ArchivesSpace Preprocessor developed by the Harvard Library (https://github.com/harvard-library/archivesspace-preprocessor)
- 2007-05-29: converted from EAD 1.0 to EAD 2002
Repository Details
Part of the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections Repository
2B Carl A. Kroch Library
Cornell University
Ithaca NY 14853
607-255-3530
607-255-9524 (Fax)