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
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
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)
rareref@cornell.edu