Chelsea Hotel promo items and Virgil Thomson letterhead New York For Sale
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Chelsea Hotel promo items and Virgil Thomson letterhead New York:
$18.99
You are offerding on a four rare promotional items from New York's legendary Chelsea Hotel, provided for guests and the media. Also included, a bonus piece of stationary from composer Virgil Thomson, a Chelsea Hotel resident for decades, and featuring his letterhead.Lot includes two New York Times articles reprinted on glossy paper and two older, folded, 4 page promo pieces, including an illustrated guide to the neighborhood and New York on the rear.
Usual bends and wear to edges and folds for ephemera of this age. Please check out the gallery for a better idea.
Shipping will be $5 via Priority Mail. Many thanks for looking. Please take a look at my other sales for rare and unusual items.The Hotel Chelsea at 222 West 23rd Street between Seventh and Eighth Avenues in the Chelsea neighborhood of New York City was built as the Chelsea Apartments, one of the city's first co-operative apartment building, in 1883–1885, designed by Hubert, Pirsson & Co. It was converted into a hotel in 1905, and was designated a NYC landmark in 1966.
Often many of the rooms have been held by the same guest for long periods of time, in some cases for several years. In the decades since its construction, many luminaries have spent time at the Chelsea—directors Stanley Kubrick and Milos Forman; writers including Mark Twain, Arthur C. Clarke, William S. Burroughs, Simone de Beauvoir, Jean Paul Sartre, Arthur Miller, Tennessee Williams, and Jack Kerouac; actors such as Lillie Langtree, Dennis Hopper, and Uma Thurman; and a range of musicians including Bob Dylan, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Leonard Cohen, Tom Waits, and Dee Dee Ramone, several of whom wrote songs about the hotel.