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Collection Data
- Description
- Joe Baum (1920-1998) was the celebrated restaurateur responsible for some of New York City's most well-known restaurants during the period of the 1950s-1990s. The collection spans Baum's career from his years with Restaurant Associates, through the creation of the varied dining facilities of the World Trade Center (including Windows on the World), and his revival of the historic Rainbow Room in Rockefeller Center. Materials in the collection include business correspondence, memoranda, and reports; publicity materials, menus, photographs, and scrapbooks documenting the work of Baum and his associates in the creation and operation of his signature restaurants, as well as copies of Baum's speeches, appointment books, awards, and letters of thanks received from friends and members of the public.
- Names
- Baum, Joseph H. (Joseph Harold), 1920-1998 (Creator)
- Dates / Origin
- Date Created: 1934 - 1998
- Library locations
- Manuscripts and Archives Division
- Shelf locator: MssCol 6181
- Topics
- Restaurants -- New York (State) -- New York -- History
- Restaurateurs
- Rainbow Room (New York, N.Y.)
- Rockefeller Center
- Windows on the World (New York, N.Y.)
- Genres
- Correspondence
- memorandums
- Menus
- Photographs
- Notes
- Biographical/historical: Joe Baum (1920-1998) was the celebrated restaurateur responsible for some of New York City's most well-known restaurants during the period of the 1950s-1990s.
- Physical Description
- Extent: 62 linear feet (158 boxes)
- Type of Resource
- Text
- Still image
- Identifiers
- NYPL catalog ID (B-number): b18350749
- MSS Unit ID: 6181
- RLIN/OCLC: 607088780
- Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): 33b709f0-0970-0133-1b5e-58d385a7b928
