Hotel Lexington, New York 1938 Sizes:50x76cm (20x30 inch) Archival Print (Unframed) she lost the title to

she lost the title to SS Normandie in 1937 and recaptured it in 1938

The nightclub was also the scene of Billie Holiday’s first public performance of Strange Fruit

first appeared in a comic strip in 1929

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James McNeill Whistler

Hotel Lexington, New York 1938 Sizes:50x76cm (20x30 inch) Archival Print (Unframed) she lost the title toThe Lexington Hotel opened in 1929 as the Hotel Lexington, at the height of the Manhattan midtown hotel boom, 1920s to the 1930s. The hotel opened with a promise by General J. Leslie Kincaid, president of the American Hotel Corporation, to provide a thoroughly modern house of refined atmosphere and exceptional service without the annoyance and confusion that is often experienced in hotels catering to large assemblages. The Hotel Lexington was home to