Menu collection of the Schlesinger Library, 1844-2018
Overview
Menus documenting food and beverages offered at restaurants, banquets, and private dinners as well as on airplanes, ships, and trains.
Dates
- Creation: 1844-2018
Language of Materials
Materials in English and French with additional materials in Chinese, German, Italian, Japanese, and Spanish.
Access Restrictions:
Access. Collection is open for research.
Conditions Governing Use
Copyright. Copyright in menus in the collection may be held by their authors, or the authors' heirs or assigns.
Copying. Menus may be copied in accordance with the library's usual procedures.
Extent
8.84 linear feet (10 file boxes, 2 folio boxes, 2 folio+ boxes)The menu collection of the Schlesinger Library contains menus documenting food and beverages offered at restaurants, banquets, and private dinners as well as on airplanes, ships, and trains. Most menus document dining experiences in the United States and France.
Physical Location
Collection stored off site: researchers must request access 36 hours before use.
Processing Information
Processed: January 2023
By: Anne Engelhart, Barbara Wheaton, Johanna Carll
The Schlesinger Library attempts to provide a basic level of preservation and access for all collections, and does more extensive processing of higher priority collections as time and resources permit. Finding aids may be updated periodically to account for new acquisitions to the collection and/or revisions in arrangement and description.
- Title
- Menu collection of the Schlesinger Library, 1844-2018: A Finding Aid
- Author
- Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America
- Language of description
- eng
- Sponsor
- Processing of this collection was made possible by the Alice Jeannette Ward Fund.
- EAD ID
- sch02260
Repository Details
Part of the Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute Repository
The preeminent research library on the history of women in the United States, the Schlesinger Library documents women's lives from the past and present for the future. In addition to its traditional strengths in the history of feminisms, women’s health, and women’s activism, the Schlesinger collections document the intersectional workings of race and ethnicity, gender, sexuality, and class in American history.