Cocktails, Hotel New Yorker 1950s Sizes:21x21cm (approx. 8x8 inch) Archival Print (Unframed) 1850s General Assembly passes laws

1850s General Assembly passes laws to encourage shellfish aquaculture

The airline is credited for many innovations that shaped the international airline industry

first lease granted

Joan Fontaine

there must have been a feeling that these glamorous days were about to end

Cocktails, Hotel New Yorker 1950s Sizes:21x21cm (approx. 8x8 inch) Archival Print (Unframed) 1850s General Assembly passes lawsThe 1940s and 1950s saw the Art Deco styled New Yorker at the peak of its popularity and it was widely regarded as one of New York's most fashionable hotels. Benny Goodman and Tommy Dorsey played there and the New York Observer noted that in the building's heyday, "actors, celebrities, athletes, politicians, mobsters, the shady and the luminousthe entire Brooklyn Dodgers roster during the glory seasonswould stalk the bars and ballrooms, or romp