Browsing the Menu Archive of the New York Public Library

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• Arnold's Restaurant and Dairy
• Arnold's Restaurant and Dairy
• Delmonico's - New York Press Club 28th Annual Dinner. Took place on April 20, 1901.
• Delmonico's - New York Press Club 28th Annual Dinner. Took place on April 20, 1901.
• Putnam's - Red Sox World Champions Complimentary Dinner. Took place on October 17, 1912.
• Putnam's - Red Sox World Champions Complimentary Dinner. Took place on October 17, 1912. On offer: blue points, farm chicken, potatoes, baked lobster, King punch, a pudding of some sort, and more.
• New York Club. From January 8, 1901.
• Fraunces' Tavern
• Fraunces' Tavern
• City Hall Cellar
• City Hall Cellar
• Child's
• City Hall Cellar
• Thomas H. Borden
• Thomas H. Borden

Today, Jeremiah's Vanishing New York ran a post featuring a bevy of restaurant menus of yore, including one from Luchow's in 1958, Toots Shor in 1951, and Gage & Tollner from 1962. It inspired us to run the above gallery of photos that former intrepid Eater intern Jessica Lin took during a trip to the menu collection of the New York Public Library. There she was shown a menu from the early 1900's of a press club dinner at Delmonico's, a one hundred year-old menu from the soon to reopen Fraunces' Tavern, a relic from Childs', and—now this is not New York but still a great find—the 1912 Red Sox World Champions Complimentary Dinner at Putnam's. It's just a mere fraction of the 26,000 menus they have on hand. Have a look.
· Old NYC Menus [JVNY]