The Menu Museum

An archive of historical restaurant menus from the New York Public Library.

16,525 menus
64,352 scanned pages
1851–2008

Scans and transcription data from the New York Public Library’s What’s on the Menu? project.

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? Hotel

Chicago, Ill · May 19, 1887

On this menu 26 dishes

Low Neck Clams
"Dulcemara" Soup
Boiled Whale (Obelisk style)
Murphy Potatoes
Fried Liver Pads
Hair-in Salad (crimp sauce)
Cold Feet (a la matrimony)
Horse (with banged tail)
Black nose Pugs (in bark)
Spring Hen (a la Babylon)
Flannel Blankets (from Lord & Taylors
Goat (Coriell catsup)
Corsets
Shoe Strings
Trousers
Flies
Rail Road Pudding (Lantern Sauce)
Wind Pudding (Guff Sauce)
Mud Pie
Rat Pie
Ki-yi
"Baldwin" Dried Apples
Sour Grapes
Water
Gum
Buttons