Note: Handwritten note on back of menu by Fred C. Bloomer, steward Restaurant: Hotel Palace (Springfield, Ill.) Location: Springfield, Illinois, United States

Note: Triangle-shaped menu unfolds into a diamond Restaurant: Matteson House Location: Chicago, Illinois, United States

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: Burgundy ribbon at menu spine Menu insert: Music Programs; Quotations Restaurant: Hotel Warner Location: Chicago, Illinois, United States

Note: Menu also marks hotel's transition from operating on an American plan to operating on a European plan Restaurant: Chittenden Hotel Location: Columbus, Ohio, United States

Note: Front cover has a portrait of Abraham Lincoln Menu insert: Music Programs; Quotations Restaurant: The Chittenden Location: Columbus, Ohio, United States