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Schomburg menu collection
- Title
- Schomburg menu collection, 1893-ca. 2000.
- Supplementary Content
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person. | Mixed material | Use in library | Sc MG 895 | Schomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives |
Details
- Description
- 1 lin. ft. (84 items)
- Summary
- Included in the collection are menus from Harlem and New York restaurants, such as Sylvia's restaurant and Home Sweet Harlem Café, and nightclubs such as, Club Baby Grand, The Cotton Club, Savoy Ballroom and Smalls Paradise. There are also items from the African Pavilion at the 1964 World's Fair, Ethiopian Airlines, Fort Huachaca, home of the Buffalo Soldiers, Motown Café, Royal Air Maroc, and the foreign minister's residence in Liberia
- Subjects
- Cotton Club
- African Americans > Social life and customs
- Sylvia's Restaurant (Harlem, New York, N.Y.)
- Menus > United States
- Arizona > Social life and customs
- Small's Paradise (Nightclub : Harlem, New York, N.Y.)
- Menus > African Americans
- Airlines > Food service > Africa
- Savoy Ballroom (Harlem, New York, N.Y.)
- Ethiopia > Social life and customs
- Dinners and dining > African Americans
- New Orleans (La.) > Social life and customs
- Food habits > African Americans
- Harlem (New York, N.Y.) > Social life and customs
- Invitation cards
- Restaurants > United States
- Liberia > Social life and customs
- African American cooking
- Biography (note)
- The Schomburg Menu Collection consists of 84 menus and related ephemera such as banquet and private dinner menus, wine lists, floor plans, invitations and photo covers, dated from 1893 through ca. 2000.
- Indexes/Finding Aids (note)
- Preliminary finding aid available.
- Call Number
- Sc MG 895
- OCLC
- 905712002
- Title
- Schomburg menu collection, 1893-ca. 2000.
- Biography
- The Schomburg Menu Collection consists of 84 menus and related ephemera such as banquet and private dinner menus, wine lists, floor plans, invitations and photo covers, dated from 1893 through ca. 2000.
- Indexes
- Preliminary finding aid available.
- Connect to:
- Research Call Number
- Sc MG 895