Research Catalog

Details

Description

1. 1 lin. ft. (84 items)

Summary

1. 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

Subject

1. Menus > United States
2. African American cooking
3. African Americans > Social life and customs
4. Savoy Ballroom (Harlem, New York, N.Y.)
5. Restaurants > United States
6. New Orleans (La.) > Social life and customs
7. Airlines > Food service > Africa
8. Arizona > Social life and customs
9. Food habits > African Americans
10. Menus > African Americans
11. Ethiopia > Social life and customs
12. Sylvia's Restaurant (Harlem, New York, N.Y.)
13. Dinners and dining > African Americans
14. Liberia > Social life and customs
15. Harlem (New York, N.Y.) > Social life and customs
16. Small's Paradise (Nightclub : Harlem, New York, N.Y.)
17. Invitation cards
18. Cotton Club

Call number

1. Sc MG 895

Biography (note)

1. 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)

1. Preliminary finding aid available.

Title

1. Schomburg menu collection, 1893-ca. 2000.

Biography

1. 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

1. Preliminary finding aid available.

Connect to:

1. NYPL Digital Collections
2. Finding aid

Research call number

1. Sc MG 895