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This correspondence from 1964 describes the origins of the Martini. According to this evidence, a man by the name of Mr. Martinez visited the original Waldorf Astoria Hotel sometime in the 1890s and suggested this drink to a bartender at the hotel.…

Headwaiter, Vidal Echeverria, is shown here with his crew of waiters at the original Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in 1922.

This article discusses the history of (the then) modern cooking techniques and the development of the modern chef, who is both in part a scientist as well as an artist. Munsey's Magazine is credited with being the first mass-market magazine that was…

The postcard reads:

"Last night at 10:30 we fairly pulled ourselves away from this wonderful concert to catch our 11:30 train - This hotel is wonderful and New York is thrilling & engrossing - Hated to come away - We are wrecks today but…

This is a photograph of the original Goldsmith Clock which was featured at the World's Colombian Exposition in Chicago in 1893. This clock was a gift from Queen Victoria as a way to show the friendship between England and the United States.

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Black and white autographed photograph portrait of an unknown subject, given to Oscar, with an inscription reading: ""Il [m... exellints] amis, Sophie et Oscar. Souvenir affectueux et fraternel [ol] leur voyage a Paris, [... Leguis] 25 Avril 1926"

Black and white autographed photograph portrait of Alfred V. Paton, given to Oscar Tschirky.

Black and white autographed photograph of Philip Elting, given to Oscar Tschirky, with an inscription reading: "To my friend "Oscar", Philip Elting, July 26. 1927".