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The album holds publicity material for the 1916 National Hotel Exposition (this was the second such exposition). The principal topic of the 1917-18 clippings seems to be the Hotel Association's homefront involvement during World War I, such as conserving food, sponsoring troop send-offs, etc.

Prominent themes in this album include the Hotel Association's support for liquor prohibition enforcement, opposition to a taxi bonding act; 7th National Hotel Exposition; and a "Welcome to New York" tourist campaign.

Principal themes of the clippings in this album include support for taxi regulations; fundraising to bring the 1924 Democratic National Convention to New York; National Hotel Exposition; and the visit of a delegation from the International Hotel Alliance.

Among the principal themes of the clippings in this album are: publicity concerning the 1924 Democratic National Convention in New York, especially assurances about room availability; the financial difficulties of the American Hotel Association and the New York association's critical role in resolving those difficulties; the 9th National Hotel Exposition; articles about whether or not to tip; and Hotel Association member Charles E. Gehring's failed bid for election to Congress on the Democratic Party ticket.

This album's theme is heavily organizational in nature, with a focus on the election of Thomas D. Green of the New York Hotel Association to the presidency of the American Hotel Association. The album includes speeches by Green, reviews of his book "Back of the House" concerning hotel operations, the move to new offices (221-3 West 57th Street), and other matters.

In addition to general matters, the album holds clippings concerning the 10th National Hotel Exposition.

This album is unusually slender with relatively few clippings. It holds one group photograph of a formal dinner, but there is no identifying information. Presumably it is of the Hotel Association members at a dinner at their annual convention; one woman is among the otherwise all-male group.

A principal theme of the clippings in this album concern the 1939 World's Fair, especially as related to hotels, tourists, etc.

The clippings in this album continue the principal theme of the 1939 World's Fair and New York City's accommodation of visitors to it.

This album continues the 1939 World's Fair theme into October 1939 and picks it up again a bit later with the re-opening of the Fair in 1940. Among the general subjects is the Hotel Association's advocacy against street noise.

Among the topics in this album are the Association's homefront involvement during World War II, such as air raid preparedness, food constraints/rationing, etc. The 2nd annual golf tournament (1942) seemed to garner much press notice.

The bulk of the album holds clippings concerning the strike by waiters of the International Federation of Hotel Employees, and its settlement.

Similar or identical clippings from various newspapers publicizing the Hotel Association's sponsorship of a course at New York University.

The album holds clippings, press releases, ephemera, etc. concerning the arrangements and travel to England, France and Germany by a delegation of the American Hotel Association, which included members of the New York Hotel Association.

This album holds clippings compiled by and at the suggestion of Hotel Association 2nd Vice President and Historian W. Johnson Quinn. Contextual documents are at the front of the volume. Generally, this was an attempt to document matters of potential historical interest concerning hotels, proprietors, etc. The clippings are arranged in tabbed sections (e.g., personnel, financing, legislation, projects, new incorporations, obituaries, etc.)

At the suggestion of Hotel Association 2nd Vice-President and Historian W. Johnson Quinn, member hotels were solicited in March 1926 for representative menus. This scrapbook, compiled by Quinn for the Association, holds the menus collected at the time. The album holds the related contextual documents.

The album holds clippings from 1937 concerning mob attempts to control restaurant unions, murders of labor officials who resisted those attempts, and a related trial. There is only one 1936 clipping, on a related murder.

The album primarily holds clippings from March-April 1936 concerning a strike by the Building Service Employees union (i.e., elevator operators) that spread to various parts of New York City, affecting about 2500 buildings. There are a few clippings from January-February 1937 concerning another potential strike.