A binder containing hundreds of pages of descriptions of and "covers" from many of them. The covers are most likely from matchbooks. Most of the hotels are from New York, and many of them are from New York City. The original owner of the scrapbook is a mystery, but apparently they had assistance from a friend of theirs named "Mr. Brown" for some of the information. There are a few instances of the author addressing the reader directly, instructing them to find missing information or to flesh out other entries. It seems the owner of the book intended to give it to another person, though it seems that they did not have a specific recipient in mind. Why they set out to document hotels from Ohio to Maryland is also unclear. The binder that holds the pages does not appear to be the original, so perhaps there is another binder with even more pages of hotels and maybe some answers about who started the book and why. Very interesting stuff for anyone with a passion for old hotels.
