Windsor Hotel Records, 1934-1956

Title

Windsor Hotel Records, 1934-1956

Description

The Windsor Hotel Records, held by the Archives of Appalachia at East Tennessee State University, consists primarily of pencil sketches of highway signs used for advertising the hotel between the 1930s and the 1950s. There are also a few letters concerning a possible loan; a list of signs and their locations; a door card from a hotel room; a hand-drawn street map of downtown Johnson City, Tennessee; and a sample of hotel stationery.

Source

Windsor Hotel Records, Archives of Appalachia, East Tennessee State University

Date

1934-1956, undated

Rights

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Identifier

ETSU Archives of Appalachia: AppMs-0269

Collection Items

Folder 3: Sketches of Windsor Hotel signs
Pencil sketches of Windsor Hotel signs

Folder 2: Correspondence, a hand-drawn street map of downtown Johnson City, and a door card from a hotel room
Four letters written between 1940-1941, a hand-drawn street map of downtown Johnson City showing the location of the Windsor Hotel property, a floor plan of the Fountain Square Hotel in Johnson City, and a door card for Room 307 of the Windsor Hotel…

Folder 1: Sketches of Windsor Hotel signs, and related materials
Sketches of Windsor Hotel advertising signs drawn with varying levels of detail; most drawn on the backs of envelopes and other scrap pieces of paper. Also includes a list of Windsor Hotel highway signs with highway frontage, miles from Johnson…
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