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Gastronomy.

 Subject
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Found in 13 Collections and/or Records:

Airline menus

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924093409070]
Identifier: 8020
Scope and content

Collection of dining menus for meals aboard airplanes. Air lines include Air New Zealand, Austrian Airlines, Emirates, Singapore Airlines, British Airways, United Airlines, Lufthansa, and Royal Dutch Airlines.

Dates: 1962-2000s; Majority of material found within 2000s

Cruise ship menus

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924093409062]
Identifier: 8019
Scope and content

Collection of illustrated dining menus for meals aboard passenger cruise ships. Shipping lines include Holland-America Line, American Mail Line, North German Lloyd Line (Nord-deutscher Lloyd), Orient Line, Hamburg America Line, Furness Bermuda Line, Ward States Line, Moore-McCormick Lines, Canadian steamship lines, Compagnie Générale Transatlantique - French Line, S.S. Republic, S.S. Minneapolis, Holand American Line, and S.S. Minnewaska.

Dates: ca.1904-1961.

Cunard Steamship Company menus

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924093409054]
Identifier: 8018
Scope and content

Collection of 34 illustrated dining menus for meals aboard the Cunard White Star Line.

Dates: 1930s-[ca.1950s]

Donald Ross menu collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 6914
Scope and content

Menus from restaurants and events, collected by Donald Ross.

Dates: ca. 1963-1990.

Ellen Wallach and Thomas Darden, collectors, menu collection

 Collection
Identifier: 8526
Abstract

Menus from various restaurants, predominately found out west.

Dates: 1937-1986.

Harold K. Baumgardner menu collection

 Collection
Identifier: 8404
Abstract

227 restaurant menus, collected by Baumgardner, 1940s-1960s.

Dates: [ca. 1949-1965].

Helmer Hansen menu collection

 Collection
Identifier: 8405
Abstract

Menus from restaurants including the Stock Yard Inn in Chicago; Ernie's San Francisco; Jules Podell's Copacabana; The Plantations in Moline, Illinois; Hotel Emporio; Martinetti's; Trader Vic's in Oakland, CA; and La Cage in the British Colonial Hotel, Nassau, Bahamas.

Dates: [ca. 1948-1970]

Menu collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 6452
Abstract

A collection of over 10,000 menus, providing evidence of the manners, mores, and food habits of earlier times.

Dates: 1851-[ca.1990]

Nestlé Library menu collection

 Collection
Identifier: 6674
Scope and content

Menus collected by the Nestle Library and used in research projects by students.

Dates: 1830 - 2012

Paul Fishbeck menu collection

 Collection
Identifier: 8418
Abstract

Menus from restaurants with personal reminiscences from Mr. Fishbeck.

Dates: 1955-2015.