Serving Pieces
Series
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
The Hotel Utah records (1909-1993) consists of employee and company newsletters, room diagrams, certificates of award recieved by the hotel, advertising materials, and 1941 payroll records. Additionally, menus from the hotel's restaurants and an early wine list are preserved in the collection. Other items that can be located among the hotel's records are magazine articles featuring the Hotel Utah and Salt Lake City, materials on the hotel's seventy-fifth anniversary celebration and information on the closing of the hotel in 1987. Scrapbooks containing newsclippings dating from 1909 to 1981 serve well in documenting the hotel's history, as well as the history of Salt Lake City during that period. Box 18 of the collection, contains materials Leonard J. Arrington deposited with the library in 1988. These are materials Arrington created and gathered while researching and writing The Hotel: Salt Lake's Classy Lady, and include magazine articles, research materials, notes, newsclippings, and correspondence. Included in the collection are serving items used at the hotel.
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Dates
- 1909-1993
Conditions Governing Access
Twenty-four hour advanced notice encouraged. Materials must be used on-site. Access to parts of this collection may be restricted under provisions of state or federal law.
Extent
From the Collection: 21 Linear Feet (31 boxes, 7 oversize boxes, and 2 oversize folders)
Language of Materials
From the Collection: English
Repository Details
Part of the J. Willard Marriott Library Special Collections Repository
Contact:
295 South 1500 East
Salt Lake City Utah 84112 United States
801-581-8863
special@library.utah.edu
295 South 1500 East
Salt Lake City Utah 84112 United States
801-581-8863
special@library.utah.edu