Sardi's (Restaurant) papers 1913-1976

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Sardi's (Restaurant) papers 1913-1976

http://archives.nypl.org/the/21509

This small collection of papers consists of letters to the Sardis on their retirement, a scrapbook of photographs of Vincent Sardi, Sr. receiving a Shubert Foundation award in 1967, a drawing of Eugenia Sardi, clippings about the restaurant, a few printed programs and menus for special events, a souvenir program (1913) from the Screen Club, and drawings by the illustrator, Don Freeman, mostly of New York scenes and people. Some of the drawings are loose, but most are bound into copies of Don Freeman's Newsstand (1938-1950), a self-published periodical.

The New York Public Library. Billy Rose Theatre Division.

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Cooley, Lydia

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Sardi's (Restaurant)

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Sardi's restaurant at 234 West 44th Street in New York City's theater district was opened on March 5, 1927 by Vincent and Eugenia Sardi. Inspired by a Paris restaurant, Sardi contracted with caricaturists to draw prominent restaurant patrons to illustrate the walls. The first caricaturist was Alex Gard who received a meal a day in return for his drawings and drew for Sardi's until his death in 1948. He was followed by John Mackey, whose tenure was brief, and then Don Bev...

Sardi, Vincent, 1915-2007

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Freeman, Don, 1908-1978

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Don Freeman was born August 11, 1908, in San Diego, CA. He attended the Art Students League in New York City for two years. In 1931 he married Lydia Cooley, an art student, and the couple had one son. Don Freeman worked as a freelance artist and as a graphic artist for the New York Times and New York Herald Tribune before beginning to illustrate books in the 1940s. In 1940 he illustrated William Saroyan's My Name is Aram . During his career, Don Freeman illustrated children's books by other well...

Sardi, Vincent, 1885-1969

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Sardi, Vincent, 1915-

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