Eleventh annual meeting: Hotel Men's Mutual Benefit Association. Boston, May 13, 14, 15, 1890. Reception Hotel Vendome May 15, 1890

[Boston: Robinson Engraving Co, 1890. Menu, in painted wooden boards, bound with cord (20 x 15.2 cm.), 10 gold-printed leaves, each a die-cut circle printed versos only. An elaborate program of events for the eleventh annual meeting of the Hotel Men's Mutual Benefit Association, held in May, 1890 at Boston's great hotels, the Parker House, Hotel Vendome, and American House. The H.M.M.B.A. was founded in 1879 to offer hotel workers insurance plans; it was later to become the Bankers Life and Casualty Company. The program and menu for the three-day meeting includes the meeting itself, music, speakers, presentations, carriage excursions, etc. The painted wooden boards hold die-cut 'booklets' dedicated to the Convention, headquartered at the Parker House, the Eleventh Annual Banquet, held at the American House, and the Reception, held at the Hotel Vendome. The boards are scored and textured, painted in silver with gold spots, and hold a hand-lettered piece of 'vellum'. Some rubbing to edges of boards, otherwise very good.