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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. | Archival Mix | 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
- Menus > United States
- African American cooking
- African Americans > Social life and customs
- Savoy Ballroom (Harlem, New York, N.Y.)
- Restaurants > United States
- New Orleans (La.) > Social life and customs
- Airlines > Food service > Africa
- Arizona > Social life and customs
- Food habits > African Americans
- Menus > African Americans
- Ethiopia > Social life and customs
- Sylvia's Restaurant (Harlem, New York, N.Y.)
- Dinners and dining > African Americans
- Liberia > Social life and customs
- Harlem (New York, N.Y.) > Social life and customs
- Small's Paradise (Nightclub : Harlem, New York, N.Y.)
- Invitation cards
- Cotton Club
- 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