Descriptive Summary
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Biography/Administrative History
Scope and Content of Collection
Indexing Terms
Descriptive Summary
Title: Jean Stinchfield Ambassador Hotel Publicity
Dates: 1922-1987
Collection Number: GC 1142
Creator/Collector:
Extent: (Boxes: 14 legal, 1ov)
Repository:
Seaver Center for Western History Research, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County
Abstract: Photographs, correspondence, press releases, clippings, and memorabilia collected by Jean Stinchfield, Publicity Director,
Ambassador Hotel, 1922-1970. Bulk is dated after 1957. [Box 1ov contains scrapbooks.]
Language of Material: English
Access
Research is by appointment only
Publication Rights
Permission to publish, quote or reproduce must be secured from the repository and the copyright holder
Preferred Citation
Jean Stinchfield Ambassador Hotel Publicity. Seaver Center for Western History Research, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles
County
Biography/Administrative History
The Ambassador Hotel opened in 1921 in the mid-Wilshire district of Los Angeles. Preservationists including the Los Angeles
Conservancy were unsuccessful in preventing its demolition in 2005.
Scope and Content of Collection
Photographs, correspondence, press releases, clippings, and memorabilia collected by Jean Stinchfield, Publicity Director,
Ambassador Hotel, 1922-1970. Bulk is dated after 1957. [Box 1ov contains scrapbooks.]
Photographs of celebrities and political figures; correspondence omits the year 1968 when presidential candidate Robert F.
Kennedy was fatally shot while campaigning at the hotel; memorabilia includes ephemera, programs and miscellaneous publications;
materials reflect on the history of the Cocoanut Grove nightclub; a taped interview with Stinchfield in 1987.
