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General Fairchild Dinner Menu
February 3, 1882
Cover and interior menu for "M. Le General Fairchild" in shadowed blackletter with the intertwined initials "M" and "P" and the head of a goat above. Gold-bordered paper squares are set into the fr...
Masonic Banquet Menu
December 27, 1899
Front cover and menu pages for a Masonic banquet, with the word "Menu" in gold-colored raised printing and two embossed fishes swimming around a branch of seaweed.
Madame Fairchild Dinner Menu
March 6, 1881
Menu offering French cuisine for a dinner attended by Frances Bull Fairchild (spouse of Lucius Fairchild, an American politician, soldier, and diplomat).
Hotel St. Catherine Dinner Menu
July 21, 1925
Dinner menu from the Hotel St. Catherine, with a color postcard at the top, meant to be detached and mailed, with a view of the hotel against a backdrop of the hills on Catalina Island and boats on...
General Fairchild Dinner Menu
February 3, 1882
Menu offering French cuisine for a dinner for "M. Le General Fairchild."
Dinner Menu for "Buffalo Bill" Cody
December 2, 1885
Fringed red silk overlay cover and gold silk ribbon backed menu page, sewn at top, for a "Complimentary Banquet to Hon. Wm. F. Cody, (Buffalo Bill) by his life-long pard, D. Frank Powell," at Camer...
