#menu cover

[heaveninawildflower]

Halloween menu cover (1913) Salt Lake City.

From the collection of Frank Buttolph.

Image and text information courtesy NYPL Digital Collection.

[stone-cold-groove]

Vintage New Year’s Eve celebration menu cover. The Hotel Del Monte, Monterey, California - 1940.

[californiababylon]

Hickory House Menu Cover. New York City. Circa 1950s.

[newyorkthegoldenage]

This huge picture should be enlarged to see the details. It is of a banquet given by the city in honor of Charles Lindbergh, who was being lionized for his cross-Atlantic flight. The day before he'd been given a ticker tape parade; on June 14, 1927, the city threw this shindig, thought (at the time) to be the biggest and most lavish dinner ever given in New York. For some strange reason, all 3,700 guests were male (there's even one young boy on the far right, third table from front). They polished off 300 gallons of turtle soup, 2,000 pounds of fish, 6,000 pounds of chicken, 800 quarts of ice cream, and 12,000 pieces of cake.

Below is the menu cover from the party. "WE" refers to Lindbergh and his relationship with his plane, the Spirit of St. Louis.

Top Photo: Vintage Sports Authentics Auctions Bottom photo: National Air & Space Museum

[princetonarchives]

Tiger Tuesday: Tigers on menus, 1890s-1950s:

1. Princeton’s March 15, 1893 banquet with Yale. Alumni Association Records (AC048), Box 23.

2.  The Quindecennial (i.e., 15th annual) Dinner of the College of New Jersey (Princeton) Class of 1878, 1893. Princeton University Class Records, Box 10.

3. Princeton Class of 1894′s second annual Reunions dinner, June 8, 1895. Scrapbook Collection (AC026), Box 177.

4. Annual dinner of the Princeton Alumni Association of Philadelphia, February 8, 1898. Alumni Association Records (AC048), Box 25.

5. Princeton University Class of 1881 20th anniversary banquet, June 11, 1901.  Princeton University Class Records (AC130), Box 20.  

6. Tiger Inn 40th anniversary dinner at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York, May 10, 1940. Eating Club Records (AC019), Box 13, Folder 9.

7. Daily Princetonian 75th anniversary banquet, February 3, 1951. Daily Princetonian General Records (AC285), Box 2.

8. National Alumni Association of Princeton University dinner in honor of Princeton University president Harold W. Dodds, February 10, 1951 at the Ponte Verda Club, Ponte Verda, Florida.  Office of the President Records (AC117), Box 179, Folder 6.

The entire Tiger Tuesday series

[radicallyretro]

Brown Derby Menu (cover) 

(📸 by jericl cat via flickr)

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[newyorkthegoldenage]

Winold Reiss designed this striking Art Deco cover for the Café Bonaparte's January 5, 1930 menu.

Photo: all-art.org

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