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| Date: | 08 09 1890 |
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| Description: | One-page menu from the R.M.S.S. Magdalena of the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company, with a parrot and a cockatiel perched on a branch above the compan... |
| Date: | 01 13 1934 |
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| Description: | Handwritten menu and "Bon Voyage" greeting in a card from the Swedish American Line, with a Swedish castle on the cover, and on the inside of the card, a t... |
| Date: | 07 16 1870 |
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| Description: | The front page of the last will and testament of Isaac Merritt Singer, founder of the Singer Sewing Machine Company. |
| Date: | 09 14 1889 |
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| Description: | One-page menu with a roundel with the seal of the Inman and International Steamship Company Limited, decorative borders, and corner ornaments. |
| Date: | 10 30 1903 |
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| Description: | One-page menu with a detachable postcard at the top, with a profile image of the steamer Washington of the Norfolk & Washington Steamboat Company, a... |
| Date: | 09 24 1929 |
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| Description: | Menu in the form of a greeting card with the event date embossed on the front cover, beneath an oval photograph of a man and a woman lying prone in a grass... |
| Date: | 09 10 1908 |
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| Description: | Dinner menu for the S.S. Marquette, with two women in traditional Dutch dresses and white caps, standing behind a fence and looking out at a ship at... |
| Date: | 09 17 1908 |
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| Description: | Dinner menu for the S.S. Marquette, with people in a rowboat near a larger ship, with windmills in the distance on shore. The image is signed "Heuss... |
| Date: | 09 20 1908 |
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| Description: | Luncheon menu from the S.S. Marquette, with women and a man in traditional Dutch clothing, standing or sitting on shore and looking out at a ship. ... |
| Date: | 07 17 1952 |
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| Description: | A letter written by Sylvester "Pat" Weaver to Jerry Lewis regarding "that blasted telethon...". |
| Date: | 01 29 1952 |
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| Description: | The first page of a letter written to A.A. Schecter by Sylvester "Pat" Weaver. |
| Date: | 01 29 1952 |
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| Description: | The second page of a letter written by Sylvester "Pat" Weaver to A.A. Schecter. |
| Date: | 05 24 1951 |
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| Description: | The third page of a letter written by Sylvester "Pat" Weaver to James W. Young. It includes Weaver's signature in ink. |
| Date: | 08 09 1879 |
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| Description: | Dinner menu from the Steamer Japan of the Lake Superior Transit Company, with a panel including a stalk of bamboo, a dragonfly, and a butterfly, and... |
| Date: | 07 21 1951 |
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| Description: | Luncheon menu for the S.S. Argentina, with a map of Argentina with spot illustrations for the provinces and featured products or symbols, the coat o... |
| Date: | 08 30 1951 |
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| Description: | Dinner menu from the R.M.S. Mauretania, with a watercolor illustration of a thatched-roof cottage and a large tree near a bend in the road. Other ho... |
| Date: | 1889 |
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| Description: | Menu from the Dining Car "Minneapolis" on the Chicago & North Western Railway, with an illustration of a child in shorts, a loose top, and a bonnet standin... |
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| Description: | A letter from the perspective of an African American Mississippian to white members of the community. |
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| Description: | Postcard menu from the Northern Pacific railroad line, with a plate filled with a steaming stack of pancakes topped with sausage links, a domed cover, a di... |
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| Description: | Exterior of the dinner menu offered by the dining car service of the New York Central and Hudson River railroad line, with a man in a bicorne, jacket, and ... |
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