The United States restaurants series contains menus and dining-related materials from 1852 to 2010. Menus represent a wide variety of restaurants, including those individually owned and operated, fine dining, hotels and banquets, and commonly known chain restaurants. Menus that date before 1930 are individually listed; all other menus are grouped alphabetically by restaurant name.
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The International restaurants series (1888-2010) is comprised of menus and dining materials from hotels and freestanding restaurants in seventy-six countries. The majority of this series dates from 1960 to 1990, and includes menus, press releases, placemats, postcards, and programs.
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The Excursions series (1880-2010) consists of cruise, airline, and train menus. Items include menus from intercontinental cruise liners as well as daily cruise ship menus and programs from 1899 to 2010, airline in-flight meal service menus from 1905 to 2011, and train menus from 1880 to 2010. The majority of this series dates from 1960 to 1990.
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The Restaurants with unidentified locations and dining ephemera series (1931-2010) contains menus from restaurants whose location could not be found at the time of processing and those without an identifiable restaurant name. Dining ephemera consists of materials related to restaurants and dining, including guides, placemats, napkins, business cards, and press releases.
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The Hotel and casino restaurants subseries (1930-2010) contains materials from restaurants and other dining services located inside hotels and casinos in the Las Vegas, Nevada area. The area includes neighborhoods and municipalities inside the Greater Las Vegas Valley, such as Henderson, North Las Vegas, and Paradise. The materials include menus, wine lists, event programs, staged show programs, room service menus, banquet menus, and press releases. The series contains menus from notable restaurants such as the Painted Desert Room at the Desert Inn Hotel and Casino, Circus Maximus at Caesars Palace, and Don the Beachcomber at the Sahara. Event menus and programs are from stage shows and convention banquets.
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The Freestanding restaurant subseries (1901-2007) contains materials from restaurants in Las Vegas, Nevada that are not associated with hotels and casinos, otherwise known as freestanding restaurants. The Las Vegas area includes neighborhoods and municipalities inside the Greater Las Vegas Valley, including Henderson, North Las Vegas, Summerlin, and Paradise. Materials in this subseries include menus, wine lists, event programs, and press releases. Of note are menus from culinary events hosted by by the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV) College of Hotel Administration, now the William F. Harrah College of Hospitality. Restaurant menus include historic Las Vegas restaurants such as Andre's French Restaurant, the Alpine Village Inn, and Fong's Garden. This subseries also contains hospital menus from Sunrise Hospital.
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