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General Fairchild Dinner Menu

Date: 02 03 1882
Description: Cover and interior menu for "M. Le General Fairchild" in shadowed blackletter with the intertwined initials "M" and "P" and the head of a goat above. Gold-...
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Mrs. Lucius Fairchild Dinner Menu

Date: 03 06 1881
Description: Front cover and interior menu with ornaments in gold ink and "Son Excellence Madame Fairchild" hand lettered in silver ink on card stock with raised silver...
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Menu for the Eighth Annual Banquet of the Merchants Association

Date: 06 23 1885
Description: Menu card and satin overlay with the intertwined initials "M" and "A" for the Eighth Annual Banquet of the Merchants Association at Plankinton House. The f...
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Park Hotel Menu

Date: 07 04 1888
Description: Exterior and interior of a menu from the Park Hotel with a deep blue striped border and perforated accent edging.
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S.S. City of Berlin Luncheon Menu

Date: 09 14 1889
Description: One-page menu with a roundel with the seal of the Inman and International Steamship Company Limited, decorative borders, and corner ornaments.
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Complimentary Dinner to Judge Chas. E. Dyer Menu

Date: 1888
Description: Card menu for a dinner for Judge Charles E. Dyer, given by his "legal friends in Milwaukee, at the Milwaukee Club." At the top is a stalk of wheat interlac...
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Senior Reception Menu

Date: 06 28 1887
Description: Menu for a senior reception catered by W.H. Burleson, with a wide border of pig or demon half-faces, and in the center a figure in a kimono and sandals wit...
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President's Dinner at Gayoso Hotel Menu

Date: 10 14 1887
Description: One-page menu for the visit of President Grover Cleveland to Memphis, with a woman with an upswept hairstyle and a choker, wearing a low-necked Delftware-p...
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President's Dinner at Gayoso Hotel Menu

Date: 10 14 1887
Description: One-page menu for the visit of President Grover Cleveland to Memphis, with a man in a powdered wig wearing a waistcoat with wide, decorated cuffs, ruffled...
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Wisconsin Authors' Club Banquet Menu

Date: 1882
Description: Card menu for the Wisconsin Authors' Club Banquet at Klosterheim. On the top left is a framed landscape of trees overlooking a body of water.
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Chicago & North Western Railway "Minneapolis" Menu

Date: 1889
Description: Menu from the Dining Car "Minneapolis" on the Chicago & North Western Railway, with an illustration of a child in shorts, a loose top, and a bonnet standin...
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Fountain Spring House Menu

Date: 08 01 1889
Description: Exterior and interior menu listing of the Fountain Spring House, with visitors strolling the grounds of a tree-filled park with the hotel in the background...
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King Christian IX and Queen Louise's Silver Jubilee Celebration Menu

Date: 11 15 1888
Description: Interior pages from the twenty-fifth anniversary of the accession to the throne of King Christian IX and Queen Louise of Denmark. A pair of columns frames ...
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George P. Merrill Dinner Menu

Date: 12 15 1888
Description: Front and inside front covers of a menu with a three-dimensional violin, a stringed bow, a sprig of cloth holly leaves and three berries, and a blue ribbon...
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Jacob Black and Belle Mandelbaum Wedding Dinner Menu

Date: 10 26 1887
Description: Menu card for the wedding dinner of Jacob Black and Belle Mandelbaum at the Palmer House, with blind embossed type for "Menu," an embossed silver bell and ...
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Menu for the 7th Annual Banquet of the Merchants Association

Date: 06 05 1884
Description: Die cut elongated octagonal menu for the 7th annual banquet of the Merchants Association at The Plankinton. On the cover is an oval portrait of a deer with...
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Palmer House Menu

Date: 10 02 1884
Description: Foldout menu with a central menu listing, with a banner at the top with hunting rifles, a horn, and fishing poles; and surrounding vignettes of hunters aim...
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Kaye's Park House Dinner Menu

Date: 08 24 1882
Description: Front cover and menu page from Kaye's Park House, with a lakeside view of the hotel, a paddlewheel steamboat, people in rowboats or standing by a Kaye's Pa...
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Dinner Menu for "Buffalo Bill" Cody

Date: 12 02 1885
Description: Fringed red silk overlay cover and gold silk ribbon backed menu page, sewn at top, for a "Complimentary Banquet to Hon. Wm. F. Cody, (Buffalo Bill) by his ...
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Park Hotel Dinner Menu

Date: 04 06 1884
Description: Front cover and menu of the restaurant at the Park Hotel, with an etching of a building with a steeple amidst many trees set against a circular frame ornam...

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