Scope and content Office files, including correspondence; duplicate accession files; guest register signed at Alumni Reunion Weekend exhibit prepared by staff of the University Archives, Barton Hall, 1977 and 1978; SPINDEX Development Project Records and SPINDEX and CornellC documentation, 1968-1975; records relating to the 1976 University records survey; and exhibit material from department exhibits, 1952-1970. Also, letters and resumes relating to the appointment of the first curator of the Collection of...

Abstract

Records of Lake Mohonk Mountain House, a resort hotel in the Shawangunk Mountains near New Paltz, New York, owned and operated by the Smileys, a Quaker family. Albert Smiley bought a tavern near Lake Mohonk and 280 acres, including the lake, in 1869.

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...