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Goff's Restaurant Menu
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Dinner and children's menu from Goff's Restaurant, with two illustrations of a woman in an apron filling a coffee cup: in the one accompanying 1893, when the restaurant was established, the woman wears a long dress and is standing by a cast-iron stove with a coal bucket nearby; in the one accompanying the year 1957, she wears a knee-length dress and is dispensing coffee from a large pot with a spigot. The fonts for each illustration also have distinctive type. The menu pages are mimeographed.
January 16, 1958
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W0136ZP
WHi 106407
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