Abstract

Menus from restaurants with personal reminiscences from Mr. Fishbeck.

Scope and content

Menus, primarily dating from the 1950s, from restaurants, hotels, railroads, airlines, and steamships across the U.S. and abroad. Includes menus from the French Line, the Holland-America Line, the Queen Mary, and the S.S. Bremen (1934-1935)

Scope and content

"Report on Operation and Expansion of the Vestal Steak House, Binghamton, New York," 1976; notebook for a seminar Cantwell gave for Dan Hotels Company, 1978; and student papers submitted to Cantwell for the course Hotel Administration 404, Spring, 1979.

Scope and content

Correspondence, subject files, research papers, manuscripts, photographs, family correspondence, prose fiction, and other papers relating to McQuade's career as an architectural critic, New York City Planning Commission member, and author. McQuade also published articles relating to urban planning, art, business, food and restaurants, travel, and medicine.

Scope and content Collection includes menus collected by William and Joan Ellis during their travels. A significant portion of the collection is from restaurants in France. Other areas of collection focus include California, Florida - particularly Palm Beach, New York City, Pennsylvania, Chicago, and New Jersey. Numerous other United States, and International menus are represented. There is also a collection of transportation related menus from airlines and ships. Some of the menus include the receipt...