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Menu Collection (page 4)

Background imageMenu Collection: Flight Dinner menu card for 47 Air School

Flight Dinner menu card for 47 Air School
Cover of a menu card for a Flight Dinner held at the Windsor Hotel on Thursday 19th August 1943 for air navigators at 47 Air School, Queenstown, South Africa

Background imageMenu Collection: Menu from Halifax Union Board of Guardians dinner

Menu from Halifax Union Board of Guardians dinner
The cover of the commemorative menu at the Halifax Union Board of Guardians final dinner. The abolition of all the countrys Boards of Guardians after April 1930 marked the end of the workhouse system

Background imageMenu Collection: Menu for The Holborn Restaurant, Kingsway, London

Menu for The Holborn Restaurant, Kingsway, London
The restaurant was next door to the Embassy Theatre in High Holborn on the corner of Kingsway. It was very large and banquets were given there in 1908 for the athletes participating in the London

Background imageMenu Collection: Paper is placed in the printing press

Paper is placed in the printing press
A printer at a print works removes a large printed page from the printing press. The sheet depicts food items, possibly for a recipe book or calendar. Photograph by Heinz Zinram

Background imageMenu Collection: Titanic launch menu card

Titanic launch menu card
A menu card for the luncheon to mark the launch of the RMS Titanic, held on 31 May 1911 at the Grand Central Hotel, Belfast. It is signed by GF Morrell

Background imageMenu Collection: Menu from the Savoy salle manger

Menu from the Savoy salle manger
Besides the famous restaurant at the Savoy in London, there is also a salle manger on the same level in which dinner is served in time for the theatres. This is the menu in late June 1901

Background imageMenu Collection: Crumbs from the rich mans table, Guildhall, London by S. B

Crumbs from the rich mans table, Guildhall, London by S. B

Background imageMenu Collection: Cassells Party Menu

Cassells Party Menu
Menu for the staff dinner of the publisher Cassells held on 15 March 1923

Background imageMenu Collection: Liebig extract

Liebig extract
Advertisement by Liebig Companys extract showing the lady of the house discussing a dinner party menu with her housekeeper

Background imageMenu Collection: Petit-Gris Scarf 1922

Petit-Gris Scarf 1922
a broad shawl-like scarf with pockets to keep the hands warm. The fur is petit-gris, a type of squirrel

Background imageMenu Collection: Paris Pavement Cafe 1890

Paris Pavement Cafe 1890
A busy scene at a Paris pavement cafe

Background imageMenu Collection: Studying Paris Menu 1874

Studying Paris Menu 1874
A rather portly customer studies the menu in a Paris restaurant

Background imageMenu Collection: French Hotel Menu 1904

French Hotel Menu 1904
The dinner menu of the Splendid Hotel, Chatel-Guyon, France

Background imageMenu Collection: Art Nouveau Design

Art Nouveau Design
It could be a menu, it could be a billet-doux, but I think its most probably a poem written out by its author in a rather flamboyant style. The design is quite of its time

Background imageMenu Collection: Scene at a feast of Hortensius, Ancient Rome

Scene at a feast of Hortensius, Ancient Rome
Scene at one of the many lavish feasts laid on by the rich orator and advocate, Quintus Hortensius Hortalus (114-50 BC), in Ancient Rome. He was the first to include peacocks on the menu

Background imageMenu Collection: Athenaeum Coffee

Athenaeum Coffee
Ordering from the menu in the coffee room at the Athenaeum Club

Background imageMenu Collection: Restaurant / Paying Bill

Restaurant / Paying Bill
The waiter waits as the customer studies the bill and scratches his head in consternation



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