A printed banquet menu from Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, 1900. Manhattan’s Gilded Age hotels hosted society dinners, fraternal reunions and corporate banquets — this is one of those cards.
Between the 1880s and the eve of Prohibition, hotels like the Waldorf-Astoria, Hotel Astor, Delmonico’s, the Knickerbocker and the Murray Hill defined American luxury dining. Every formal banquet had a custom menu card; their typography and engraving are some of the finest commercial print work of the Gilded Age.
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.
