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Thanksgiving dinner menu, November 28, 1907, French Lick Springs Hotel

Information

Date

1907-11-28

Description

Note: Tri-fold with two color post cards. Although unidentified, the top postcard shows the Pluto sulfur spring, covered by a gazebo, in French Lick, Indiana; the bottom postcard shows the hotel-spa. The menu side shows a red devil figure atop a bottle, labeled "Pluto Concentrated Spring Water," on wheels, hitched to a running turkey. The "devil" is the Roman god Pluto as rendered as an advertising icon for the Pluto Water Co. Post card side is addresed to H.J. Bohn. Extract from the poem "The Pumpkin" by John Greenleaf Whittier included Menu insert: Poems; Advertisements Restaurant: French Lick Springs Hotel Location: French Lick, Indiana, United States

Digital ID

men001543

Permalink

http://n2t.net/ark:/62930/d1q815862
Details

Contributor

Contributor: Hotel Press (French Lick, Indiana)

Subject

Menus
Menu design
Restaurant management--Prices
Dinners and dining
Restaurants
Cooking
Food service
Food habits
Manners and customs
Bottles
Turkeys
Gazebos
People
Buildings
Cooking, American

Time Period

1900s (1900 - 1909)

Resource Type

Text

Material Type

menus

Source

Thanksgiving dinner menu, French Lick Springs Hotel, 1907 November 28

Archival Collection

Bohn-Bettoni Menu Collection

Digital Project

Menus: The Art of Dining

Citation

men001543. 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/d1q815862

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

3 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches
477 bytes

Language

English

Publisher

University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Libraries

Format

image/tiff