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 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Genre/Form Terms

Found in 38 Collections and/or Records:

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]

Dean H. Towner papers

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924065330478]
Identifier: 37-5-3219
Scope and content

Two account books of expenses, kept by Towner as a student at Cornell; Phi Beta Kappa banquet menu; Senior Week/Commencement program, 1940; two Cornell R.O.T.C. pins; and a Cornell pin.

Dates: 1936-1940.

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.

Douglas Hayward menu collection

 Collection
Identifier: 8954
Content Description

Approximately 40 restaurant menus collected by Douglas Hayward in the 1960s and 70s, primarily from eateries in California, New York, Michigan, Hawaii, Paris, and London. The collection also includes some train and cruise ship menus.

Dates: 1964 - 1975

(Ethiopia) Abyssinia

 File — Box 25: [Barcode: 31924064933256], Folder: 19

Floyd R. Newman papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 37-5-1619
Abstract

Floyd R. Newman was born in Casnovia, Michigan in 1890 and grew up in Churchville, New York. Newman's papers document his Cornell experience as a student and alumnus, his professional career, family and travels dating 1893-1990. The collection contains correspondence, photographs, programs, menus, broadsides, clippings, pamphlets, Cornell memorabilia and World War I artifacts.

Dates: 1893-1990.

Fordyce family papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 3646
Abstract

Collection consists of correspondence, account books, notebooks, photographs, deeds, and other material of the Fordyce family of Scipio Center, Cayuga County and Monroe County, New York. Also contains papers of the Ohio branch of the Fordyce family, which included George Lincoln Fordyce, a Cleveland businessman and naturalist.

Dates: 1839-1979.

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]

Hotel Maury scrapbook

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924092067838]
Identifier: 6670
Scope and content

Scrapbook of menus from the hotel and from banquets held there.

Dates: 1905-1909.