Collection of menus from Chicago's grand hotel

Chicago, Ill: the hotel, 1904

By [Menu collection – Palmer House (Chicago, Ill.)]

Chicago, Ill: the hotel, 1904. Thirty-two menus and one related item (various sizes), with various pagination. A collection of early menus from Chicago's historic Palmer House, which until the recent Covid pandemic, was the oldest continuously operating hotel in America. It was the first hotel in the city with elevators, and the first with electric lights and telephones in the rooms. The original hotel opened in September 1870, but burnt the following year during the Great Fire. The new Palmer House opened in 1875, and all of the menus in this collection are from the period of this second hotel. Overall condition is very good to fine.

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Title

Collection of menus from Chicago's grand hotel

Author

[Menu collection – Palmer House (Chicago, Ill.)]

Condition

Unknown

Publisher

the hotel: Chicago, Ill

Date

1904

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