Phillip Haultcoeur Papers
name: label: Creator
content: NBC Television Network
label: Creator
content: Home (TV Program)
label: Creator
content: Haultcoeur, Phillip (Hippolyte Arthur), 1908-1967 (Chef)
topic: label: Topic
content: Chefs -- New York
label: Topic
content: Cooking
label: Topic
content: Photographs
label: Topic
content: Recipes
label: Topic
content: Restaurants
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Collection donated by Phillip A. Haultcoeur (son of chef Phillip Haultcoeur) in 2020.
creator: label: Creator
content: NBC Television Network
label: Creator
content: Home (TV Program)
label: Creator
content: Haultcoeur, Phillip (Hippolyte Arthur), 1908-1967 (Chef)
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content: Phillip Haultcoeur Papers
abstract: label: Summary
content: Collection documents the NBC television show "Home" (1954-1957) particularly, the activities of on-air chef Phillip Haultcoeur.
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Hippolyte Arthur Phillip Haultcouer, was born on May 3, 1908 in London, England. He came to the United States in 1929 aboard the SS President Roosevelt and opened the kitchen at New York City's Savoy-Plaza Hotel, which operated from 1927-1965. He was familiarly known as "Chef Phillip." He became a United States citizen on July 24, 1940. From March 1942 to November 1945, Haultcouer served as a Tec-5 in the United States Army. In October 1948 he married Margaret M. Mulcahy (1926-1981) in Manhattan and the couple had two children, Phillip (b. 1949) and Douglas (b. 1951). 

In 1953 Haultcouer founded the culinary arts program at the State University of New York at the New York City Community College to train chefs. Haultcouer also appeared on the "Home" television program of the National Broadcasting Company with Arlene Francis and Hugh Downs from 1954 to 1957. 

Sources

"Chef Phillip of the Voisin Dead; Set Up State Culinary Program," New York Times, February 15, 1967, page 40.  

Gould, Jack. "Television in Review: 'Home' Daytime Show for Women on N.B.C., Starts Ambitiously," New York Times March 5, 1954, page 26 

The National Archives at Philadelphia; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; NAI Title: Declarations of Intention for Citizenship, 1/19/1842 - 10/29/1959; NAI Number: 4713410; Record Group Title: Records of District Courts of the United States, 1685-2009; Record Group Number: 21

National Archives at College Park; College Park, Maryland, USA; Electronic Army Serial Number Merged File, 1938-1946; NAID: 1263923; Record Group Title: Records of the National Archives and Records Administration, 1789-circa 2007; Record Group: 64; Box Number: 04882; Reel: 152

New York City Municipal-Archives; New York, New York; Borough: Manhattan; Volume Number: 46
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Cubic foot (3 boxes)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1932-1967
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NMAH.AC.1501
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Color slides
label: Type
content: Correspondence
label: Type
content: Menus
label: Type
content: Newsclippings
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: The collection is arranged into three series. 

Series 1: Personal Materials, 1932-1967

Series 2: "Home" (NBC TV) Program, 1954-1957

Seroies 3: Photographs and Slides, 1950s-1960s
processinfo: label: Processing Information
content: Collection processed by Alison Oswald, archivist, 2023.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Color slides
label: Genre/Form
content: Correspondence -- 20th century
label: Genre/Form
content: Menus -- 20th century
label: Genre/Form
content: Newsclippings
scopecontent: label: Content Description
content: The collection consists of correspondence, recipes, menus, photographs, news clippings, and program notes relating to the NBC television show "Home" (1954-1957) and, particularly, to the activities of on-air chef Phillip Haultcoeur.