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Chicago & Alton Railroad, Train Lunch, menu

Information

Date

1905-02-26

Description

Note: Reverse side of menu has an excerpt from the Chicago News Letter, March 1, 1884 describing the new Train Lunch service. Lunch served, "on Night Trains in both directions between Chicago and St. Louis, and on Denver Express Trains in both directions between Chicago and Kansas City." Various quotes, item prices, and train service information listed on menu Menu insert: Quotations; Advertisements Restaurant: The Chicago and Alton Railroad dining car Location: United States

Digital ID

men000925

Permalink

http://n2t.net/ark:/62930/d1ng4h81c
Details

Contributor

Contributor: Shepard & Johnston
Contributor: Lynch, M. L. (Superintendent of Dining Cars, Chicago)

Subject

Menus
Menu design
Restaurant management--Prices
Dinners and dining
Restaurants
Cooking
Food service
Food habits
Manners and customs
Borders, Ornamental (Decorative arts)
Monograms
Cooking, American
Cooking, European
Chappell, C. H.
Charlton, James

Time Period

1900s (1900 - 1909)

Resource Type

Text

Material Type

menus

Archival Collection

Bohn-Bettoni Menu Collection

Digital Project

Menus: The Art of Dining

Citation

men000925. Bohn-Bettoni Menu Collection, 1854-1939. MS-00793. Special Collections and Archives, University Libraries, University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Las Vegas, Nevada. http://n2t.net/ark:/62930/d1ng4h81c

Rights

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Standardized Rights Statement

Copyright Not Evaluated

Digital Provenance

Digitized materials: physical originals can be viewed in Special Collections and Archives reading room

Extent

7 x 4 3/4 inches
544 bytes

Language

English

Publisher

University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Libraries

Format

image/tiff