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| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | Vending and dispensing machines display. Banner above also reads: (Increased dairy sales and better health for your community." |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | Three workers with barrels of drinks inside a refreshment booth decorated with stars and stripes. The men were preparing to serve drinks at an Internationa... |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | Valentine's Day card of a soda fountain with two girls seated on stools in front of the counter and a soda jerk behind. Two puppies are on the floor near t... |
| Date: | 1954 |
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| Description: | Back and front of a small folded card menu, with an etching of a quarter view of the exterior of Republican House surrounded by leafy trees on the front co... |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | Menu of Cornish pasties and desserts offered by Pendarvis House, a group of restored stone houses built by Cornish settlers in Mineral Point. The cover of ... |
| Date: | 12 25 1945 |
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| Description: | Menu for the 1945 Christmas dinner on the U.S.S. Wisconsin in the form of a holiday greeting card, with a profile of a Santa head in which the silho... |
| Date: | 11 23 1944 |
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| Description: | Front cover of "The Badger," official newspaper of the U.S.S. Wisconsin, with a Thanksgiving dinner menu set against an outline in red ink of a larg... |
| Date: | 1901 |
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| Description: | Front cover and first page of a menu from a railroad dining car, with a woman in long robes carrying a tray with a steaming dish of food. A border of fruit... |
| Date: | 09 13 1911 |
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| Description: | Middle front outer panel and tri-fold menu from The Gargoyle, with a gargoyle sitting atop the framed illustration of the entryway of the restaurant and a ... |
| Date: | 03 21 1901 |
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| Description: | Supper menu from the S.S. Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse of the Norddeutscher Lloyd shipping company, Bremen, with an illustration of people on the top d... |
| Date: | 03 23 1901 |
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| Description: | Luncheon menu from the S.S. Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse of the Norddeutscher Lloyd shipping company, Bremen, with a three-quarter illustration of peop... |
| Date: | 10 29 1908 |
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| Description: | Front cover and menu listing from the Hotel Badger, with an etching of a fox sitting on the ground looking up at a bunch of grapes hanging on a vine over a... |
| Date: | 04 22 1952 |
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| Description: | Menu from the Inaugural Luncheon of the Half-Century Club of the National Association of Tobacco Distributors, with a pioneer driving a team of horses pull... |
| Date: | 1986 |
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| Description: | Front cover and imagined bill of fare for "Rupert's Roadkill Cafe: You Kill It ... ... We Grill It!," with a cartoon drawing of a cat standing on long, fla... |
| Date: | 03 14 1942 |
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| Description: | Typewritten menu for the luncheon meeting of the Madison Civics Club held at the Loraine Hotel, with photographer Margaret Bourke-White as speaker. Over 50... |
| Date: | 04 21 1919 |
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| Description: | Front cover, menu, and back cover of program ("Conferring the Service Stripes") for a dinner at the Medford Hotel, with a deep rose hand-colored border wit... |
| Date: | 09 25 1931 |
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| Description: | Luncheon menu and program from a McCormick Celebration at Washington and Lee University, with an etching of a three-quarter view of Cyrus McCormick's first... |
| Date: | 09 18 1908 |
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| Description: | Luncheon menu from the S.S. Marquette, with a framed illustration of a white-bearded man in profile holding a pipe and turning away to look at a sai... |
| Date: | 09 20 1908 |
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| Description: | Farewell dinner menu from the S.S. Marquette, with a man, a woman, and a child in Dutch clothing on a boat, facing away to look at an approaching sh... |
| Date: | 02 15 1946 |
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| Description: | Front cover, frontispiece photograph, and page from a publication of the State Board of Health, with half silhouette views of three seated children with mi... |
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