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Planters' House, dinner menu, Sunday, November 23, 1884 |
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The Montezuma menu, Sunday, June 24, 1883 |
Menu tied with pink and green cloth ribbon. Illustration on back cover engraved & copyrighted by J.A. Lowell & Co., Boston No. 38D. Includes wine list. |
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Reception menu, March 7, 1882 at Southern Hotel |
Pink menu consists of two artist's palette shaped pages tied together with a blue ribbon. |
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The Southern, menu, March 12, 1882 |
Diamond-shaped menu folds to go into triangle-shaped envelope. |
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The Southern, menu, Sunday, July 16, 1882 |
Folded menu with envelope. The envelope has a partial cancellation mark but the stamp is missing. It is addressed "The Hotel World, Chicago, Ills." The back of the envelope has a monogrammed SH. Menu and envelope are printed on tan... |
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Lindell Hotel, menu, December 17, 1882 |
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The Southern, menu, Sunday, December 4, 1881 |
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Thanksgiving dinner menu, Thursday, November 29, 1883, St. James Hotel |
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The Southern menu, January 15, 1882 |
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The Southern, menu, Sunday, May 14, 1882 |
Menu states: Thoroughly fire proof. |
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Christmas menu, 1883, Laclede Hotel |
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The Southern menu, May 7, 1882 |
Time listed on menu, 5:30 to 7:00 |
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The Southern, menu, March 26, 1882 |
Menu is shaped like an artist's palette, including the thumb hole. |
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New Year's Eve 1908, menu, Hotel Jefferson |
Illustration of church bell and birds. Poem at top of menu bidding goodbye to 1908 and welcoming 1909. |
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Lindell Hotel, menu, May 6, 1883 |
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Lindell Hotel, menu, February 19, 1882 |
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The Southern, menu, December 8, 1881 |
Handwritten menu |
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Lindell Hotel, menu, March 19, 1882 |
In small print at the bottom of cover "163-Copyright by Robinson Eng. Co., Boston, 1881." |
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Menu for Opening of Jacksonville Southeastern Rail Road to Centralia, Wednesday, November 7, 1883, Dunlap... |
Excursion souvenir. Quote on menu, "Now good digestion wait on appetite and health on both." |
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Dunlap House, menu, Sunday, May 20, 1883 |
Handwritten on the back of the menu is "Compliments of Jno. A. Vickery" |
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Chicago & Alton Railroad, Train Lunch, menu |
Reverse side of menu has an excerpt from the Chicago News Letter, March 1, 1884 describing the new Train Lunch service. Lunch served, "on Night Trains in both directions between Chicago and St. Louis, and on Denver Express Trains in... |
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Dunlap House menu, Monday, February 12, 1883 |
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Christmas dinner menu, Thursday, December 25, 1884, The Beach Hotel |
Dinner from 5:30 to 8. |
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Paxton, menu |
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