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Hear ye! hear ye! Our menu, Stowe House, Brunswick, Maine

Date

1961-04-03

GUSN

GUSN-318485

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Description

The extensive menu has beef, lamb and seafood entrees as well as sandwiches and homemade pies. The menu verso has a photograph of the dining room and a history of the house where Harriet Beecher Stowe lived from 1850-1852. The menu cover has a drawing of a town crier.

Details

Descriptive Terms

advertising
business (commercial function)
inns
restaurants
food
authors
educators
abolitionists
women (female humans)
historic houses
houses
dwellings
menus
oversize

Physical Description

1 menu : illustrations ; 17 x 6 3/4 inches

Collection Code

EP001

Collection Name

Ephemera collection

Reference Code

EP001.15.004

Image Dimensions

17 x 6 3/4 (HxW)(inches)

Credit Line

Gift of Ken Turino, 21 August 2001.

Places

Brunswick (Cumberland county, Maine)

Record Details

Material Type

menus
oversize

Other People

Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896

Subjects

Tourism
Tourists
Town criers

Description Level

Item

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