A dining card from Luchow’S Pan-American Restauant, 1901 — issued at one of the great international expositions that defined the modern fair as a cultural event.
Between 1893 and 1907, a series of vast international expositions — Chicago’s Columbian Exposition (1893), Omaha’s Trans-Mississippi (1898), the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo (1901), St. Louis’s Louisiana Purchase (1904), and Jamestown’s tercentennial (1907) — drew tens of millions of visitors. Their printed dining cards capture a moment when American consumer culture was being invented in real time.
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.
