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George P. Merrill Dinner Menu
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Menu page and back cover for a "Dinner tendered Geo. P. Merrill by Chas. H. Wheeler," with a handwritten menu with wines and spirits in red, and colored pen and ink half-length drawings of three men in top hats and dress coats and holding beverage glasses. The year "1888" is written in thick, textured gold ink, and a pen and ink full-length drawing of a man in a black suit standing in the snow and leaning against the trunk of a tree.
December 15, 1888
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