Collection context
Summary
- Creators:
- Palace Hotel (San Francisco, Calif.)
- Abstract:
- Contains daily schedules and reservations, and employee time sheets. The daily schedules and reservations detail banquets, meetings, weddings, parties and also the first meetings of the United Nations in 1945. Details include menus and seating charts. There are also daily schedules and reservation ledgers for specific banquet rooms in the hotel including the Garden Court, Palm Court and Rose Room.
- Extent:
- Number of containers: 40 volumes Linear feet: 8
- Language:
- Collection materials are in English
Background
- Biographical / historical:
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The Palace Hotel opened in San Francisco, Calif. on Oct. 2, 1875.
For more information see the hotel's website at http://www.sfpalace.com/main/history.htm
- Acquisition information:
- The Palace Hotel records were purchased by The Bancroft Library on December 16, 2005. Additions were made on March 5, 2007.
- Physical location:
- Many of the Bancroft Library collections are stored offsite and advance notice may be required for use. For current information on the location of these materials, please consult the Library's online catalog.
- Rules or conventions:
- Finding aid prepared using Describing Archives: a Content Standard
Access and use
- Location of this collection:
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University of California, Berkeley, The Bancroft LibraryBerkeley, CA 94720-6000, US
- Contact:
- 510-642-6481