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Sardi's (Restaurant) caricatures

Title
Sardi's (Restaurant) caricatures, 1927-1952?.
Author
Sardi's (Restaurant)
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Vol/DateFormatAccessStatusCall NumberLocation
Box 1Still imageSupervised useIn transit*T-Vim 1979-005 Box 1Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre
Box 2Still imageSupervised useAvailable*T-Vim 1979-005 Box 2Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre
Box 3Still imageSupervised useAvailable*T-Vim 1979-005 Box 3Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre
Box 4Still imageSupervised useAvailable*T-Vim 1979-005 Box 4Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre
Box 5Still imageSupervised useAvailable*T-Vim 1979-005 Box 5Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre
Box 6Still imageSupervised useAvailable*T-Vim 1979-005 Box 6Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre
Box 7Still imageSupervised useAvailable*T-Vim 1979-005 Box 7Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre
Box 8Still imageSupervised useAvailable*T-Vim 1979-005 Box 8Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre

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c2pcSardi's (Restaurant). Caricatures and papers (CStRLIN)NYPW00-a182.
Description
8 boxes.
Subjects
Genre/Form
Caricatures.
Source (note)
  • Vincent Sardi, Jr.
Biography (note)
  • Sardi's restaurant at 234 West 44th Street in New York City's theater district was opened on March 5, 1927 by Vincent and Eugenia Sardi.
Indexes/Finding Aids (note)
  • Finding aid available in repository and on the Internet.
Linking Entry (note)
  • Forms part of the Sardi's (Restaurant) caricatures and papers.
Processing Action (note)
  • Cataloged
Call Number
*T-Vim 1979-005
Author
Sardi's (Restaurant)
Title
Sardi's (Restaurant) caricatures, 1927-1952?.
Summary
This collection contains some of the drawings that were displayed on the walls of Sardi's restaurant from the first drawing of Alex Gard to Don Bevan drawings of the early 1950s. The caricatures are predominately, but not exclusively, from the field of performing arts. This includes music, cinema, theater and dance and ranges from performers to press agents and managers to writers. A few people from outside the performing arts field, such as Al Capone and Helen Keller, are also represented. The common factor among all the objects of the caricatures is that they all must have eaten at Sardi's.
This collection represents only a portion of the caricatures created during this period. The remainder remain with Sardi's.
Biography
Sardi's restaurant at 234 West 44th Street in New York City's theater district was opened on March 5, 1927 by Vincent and Eugenia Sardi. Inspired by a Paris restaurant, Sardi contracted with caricaturists to draw prominent restaurant patrons to illustrate the walls. The first caricaturist was Alex Gard who received a meal a day in return for his drawings and drew for Sardi's until his death in 1948. He was followed by John Mackey, whose tenure was brief, and then Don Bevan who worked from the early 1950s until his retirement in 1974.
Linking Entry
Forms part of the Sardi's (Restaurant) caricatures and papers.
Indexes
Finding aid available in repository and on the Internet.
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Found In:
c2pcSardi's (Restaurant). Caricatures and papers (CStRLIN)NYPW00-a182.
Research Call Number
*T-Vim 1979-005
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