The Excursion travels series consists of cruise and train menus dating from 1880 to 1939. Items include menus from intercontinental cruise liners, cross-country train routes, and daily cruise ship menus and programs.
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Bohn-Bettoni Menu Collection
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Collection Number: MS-00793 Collection Name: Bohn-Bettoni Menu Collection Box/Folder: N/A
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.
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Bohn-Bettoni Menu Collection
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Collection Number: MS-00793 Collection Name: Bohn-Bettoni Menu Collection Box/Folder: N/A
Note: Cover is embossed with illustration of an Elizabethan troubadour playing a stringed instrument, on a horse, beneath a balcony; additional embossed floral motif; menu edges are scalloped Restaurant: Hotel Phelps Location: Greenville, Michigan, United States
Note: Cover has illustration of maple leaves. Menu is bound with green cord. Two short poems are included Menu insert: Poems Restaurant: Hotel Clegg Location: Greensboro, North Carolina, United States
Note: Illustration of the hotel, and the hotel logo, on the cover. Includes music program; C. Casser, musical director Menu insert: Music Programs Restaurant: The Antlers Location: Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States
Note: Cover features illustration of a pixie (or elf with wings) carrying a steaming dish on a tray. Menu has scalloped edges Restaurant: National Hotel Location: Peoria, Illinois, United States
Note: Rate of board $2.00 per day Menu insert: Wine lists; Spirits Lists; Advertisements Restaurant: Edgerton House Location: Macon, Georgia, United States
Note: Illustration on cover of young woman in costume as Ophelia (from "Hamlet") Restaurant: Sweet's Hotel Location: Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States