Donald Ross menu collection
Scope and content
Menus from restaurants and events, collected by Donald Ross.
Dates
- ca. 1963-1990.
Creator
- Ross, Donald (Collector, Person)
Language of Material
In English.
Biographical / Historical
On the evening of Nov. 22, 1963 (at the Aku Aku restaurant/Stardust Hotel/Las Vegas, Nevada) after learning of the terrible news of JFK's assasination, Donald Ross started to collect menus from the restaurants where he dined during his frequent travels over the next ca. 35 years -- domestic and abroad -- for the Atomic Energy Commission (and its successor agencies, Energy Research & Development Administration and the Department of Energy) as well as when he hosted visitors to the Washington, D.C. area. The collection includes 2,472 menus.Mr. Ross indexed each menu (by hand, alphabetically by restaurant, in spiral notebooks) indicating the restaurant, location, month/year of his visit and the type of menu (regular dinner, banquet, bar, cafeteria, dessert, etc.). The notebook index is in box one. The menus are in the boxes alphabetically by geographic location.
Extent
3 cubic feet. (3 cubic feet.)
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
- Box: 1 (Mixed Materials)
- Box: 2 (Mixed Materials)
- Box: 3 (Mixed Materials)
- Box: 4 (Mixed Materials)
- Box: 5 (Mixed Materials)
- Box: 6 (Mixed Materials)
- Box: 7 (Mixed Materials)
- Box: 8 (Mixed Materials)
- Box: 9 (Mixed Materials)
- Box: 10 (Mixed Materials)
- Box: 11 (Mixed Materials)
- Box: 12 (Mixed Materials)
- Box: 13 (Mixed Materials)
- Box: 14 (Mixed Materials)
- Box: 15 (Mixed Materials)
- Box: 16 (Mixed Materials)
- Box: 17 (Mixed Materials)
- Box: 18 (Mixed Materials)
- Box: 19 (Mixed Materials)
- Box: 20 (Mixed Materials)
Repository Details
Part of the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections Repository
2B Carl A. Kroch Library
Cornell University
Ithaca NY 14853
607-255-3530
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