A printed thanksgiving menu from Grand Hotel, 1898. Festive seasonal cards from late-Victorian and Edwardian America.
Holiday dinner menus — Christmas, Thanksgiving, Easter, New Year’s Day — were once printed in their thousands by American hotels and restaurants. The illustrated and engraved cards from 1890–1910 are among the most festive printed ephemera of their era.
What you receive
- Three print sizes: 8×10, 11×14, 16×20 inches (300 DPI).
- Two versions of each size: a pure print (no added text) and a museum print (with a small caption).
- One ZIP file, instantly downloadable after checkout.
About the source
This menu is preserved in the Buttolph Collection of Menus at The New York Public Library and is in the public domain in the United States. The Menu Press has digitally restored and reformatted the work for modern printing.
