London Metropolitan Archives

RITZ HOTEL

IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0074 LMA/4186

Held at: London Metropolitan Archives

Title: RITZ HOTEL

Date(s): 1925

Level of description: Collection

Extent: 0.08 linear metres

Name of creator(s): The Ritz Hotel | London

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

The Ritz was built for the Blackpool Building and Vendor Company Ltd on the site of the Walsingham House and Bath Hotels in Piccadilly, to the specifications of Swiss Hotelier Cesar Ritz. The hotel opened on 24th May 1906.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Photograph of staff from the kitchen of the Ritz Hotel, 1925.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

One item

Conditions governing access:

Available for general access.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Physical characteristics:

Fit

Finding aids:

Please see online catalogues at: http://search.lma.gov.uk/opac_lma/index.htm

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Donated to the Archive in 1997.

ALLIED MATERIALS

DESCRIPTION NOTES Rules or conventions: Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions: July to October 2009

INDEX ENTRIES

Subjects
Catering | Occupations
Catering personnel | Food industry personnel | Personnel | People by occupation | People
Hotel industry | Service industries
Hotels | Commercial buildings | Buildings | Architecture
Photographs | Visual materials

Personal names

Corporate names
The Ritz Hotel | London

Places