Bellevue Memorabilia Collection, 1884-2005 bulk 1900-2004.

  1. Resources
  2. View Resource

ArchivalResource

Bellevue Memorabilia Collection, 1884-2005 bulk 1900-2004.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/225620212

The Bellevue Memorabilia Collection offers a rich variety of materials documenting the growth, decline, and rebirth of this famous Philadelphia landmark. Aside from a few items from the late 19th century, the bulk of the materials ranges from the 1900s through 2005, and offers a view of the society, its customs, and fashions of the world in which the hotel operated. Although holding little correspondence, the collection includes photographs, post cards, sketches, brochures, books, menus and service listings, hotel artifacts, as well as magazine and newspaper advertisements which chronicle the hotel's existence. In an unpublished manuscript, "Au Revoir Bellevue," an assistant manager recounts his fifty years of service, and offers a behind-the-scene glimpse of the hotel and some of its guests' famous and infamous idiosyncrasies. Portions of the collection were exhibited at the hotel in celebration of the hotel's one hundredth anniversary in 2004.

22 boxes, 1 vol., (7.5 linear feet)

Historical Society of Pennsylvania

Information

SNAC Resource ID: 7066132

Related Entities

There are 8 Entities related to this resource.

Boldt, George, 1851-1916

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6p34k12 (person)

George Boldt was a Prussian-born American hotelier. A self-made millionaire, he influenced the development of the urban hotel as a civic social center and luxury destination....

Bellevue-Stratford Hotel (Philadelphia, Pa.)

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6898bh9 (corporateBody)

The Bellevue Stratford Hotel at the southwest corner of Broad and Walnut Streets in Philadelphia opened as a luxury hotel in 1904. First owned and operated by George C. Boldt, the hotel represented a union of the "old" Bellevue (at the northwest corner of Broad and Walnut) with the Stratford Hotel on the southwest site, which was demolished for the Bellevue's construction. The Bellevue Stratford, built in the French Renaissance style and now a national historic landmark, served for many years as...

Ranck, Isaac Newton, 1878-1961.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6k14rj7 (person)

Boldt Castle (N.Y.)

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6zm2nc8 (corporateBody)

Boldt Castle is located on Heart Island in the Saint Lawrence River. Originally a private mansion built for American millionaire George Boldt, it is now maintained by the Thousand Islands Bridge Authority as a tourist attraction....

Park Hyatt at the Bellevue.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6fj9ngx (corporateBody)

Malo, Paul

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w64c0ng0 (person)

Lucas, Roger S.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w69g5sxz (person)

George C. Boldt was born in 1851 at Dammgartin, on the island of Rugen, in the Baltic Sea. After coming to the United States and working in New York State, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey, during which time he opened the Bellevue Hotel in Philadelphia, he also managed others in Philadelphia and New Jersey. In 1890 he became proprietor and manager of the Waldorf Hotel in New York City, which opened in 1893. He joined his family in Alexandria Bay, N.Y. in July of 1893; from 1895 until his wife, Louis...

Bellevue.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6f83j8z (corporateBody)