The United States restaurants series contains menus dating from 1854 to 1930 that represent a wide variety of dining experiences, including those individually owned and operated, fine dining, and hotels and banquets. Menus listed at the item level are in numerical order by digital identifier, when present; remaining menus are grouped by event type.

The Menus and wine lists from unidentified locations series contains material dating from 1880 to 1929 from restaurants whose location could not be found at the time of processing and those without an identifiable restaurant name.