COLLECTION DESCRIPTION
Menus from restaurants in New York, including Fraunces Tavern, Cafe des Artistes, Windows on the World, and Maxwell's Plum (postcards); California, including Aptos Beach Inn; Williamsburg (Va.) including Campbell's Tavern; Illinois: Massachusetts; Vermont; New Orleans - Brennan's; Bretton Woods, New Hamphire - the Mount Washington Hotel and Resort (guest directory) in ; Paris, including the Hotel Meurice and Le Drugstore; McClure's in Melbourne, Australia; and the Royal Hawaiian from a Matson ship. Includes personal reminiscences from Mr. Fishbeck.
Menus from a cruise around the British Isles, Ireland, Norway on the SS Nautica taken by John and Helen Babcock.
Additional menus from Louisiana, Australia, Portland (Oregon), and the Restaurant de la Pyramide in Vienne, France.
Additional menus from New Zealand and Australia; also lunch menus from the Dawn Princess cruise ship.
Additional menus from California, Australia, Switzerland, Chicago, and Hong Kong.
Dates
- 1955-2015.
Creator
- Fishbeck, Paul (Collector, Person)
Language of Materials
Collection material in English
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
Class of 1956, Hotel.
Extent
.3 cubic feet. (.3 cubic feet.)
Abstract
Menus from restaurants with personal reminiscences from Mr. Fishbeck.
Physical Description
Printed material
General
- Contact Information:
- Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections 2B Carl A. Kroch Library Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853 (607) 255-3530 Fax: (607) 255-9524rareref@cornell.eduhttp://rmc.library.cornell.edu
- Compiled by:
- RMC Staff
- Date completed:
- September 2013
- EAD encoding:
- RMC Staff, September 2013
- Date modified:
- Kristen Reichenbach, August 2018
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Compiled by RMC Staff
- Date
- September 2013
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
Repository Details
Part of the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections Repository
2B Carl A. Kroch Library
Cornell University
Ithaca NY 14853
607-255-3530
607-255-9524 (Fax)
rareref@cornell.edu