IMAGE
[Menus, up to octavo size. 1800s]
- Date
- 1860 - 1898
- By
- Grey River Argus (Newspaper); Boys, J W T, active 1883; Ryall, Denis James, 1909-1982
- Reference
- Eph-A-DINING-1800s
- Description
Includes menus for:
Complimentary dejeuner to Sir George Grey by His Worship the Mayor and the City Council of Dunedin. J McCubbin, Otago Hotel, Caterer. Fergusson & Mitchell, Printers. [1860s?] (Donor Mr J Stacey, 1960).
Lyttelton Harbour Board. Celebration of dock opening. January 3rd 1883. J Buggey, Caterer. 1883 (photographic copy)
Wellington Club. Farewell dinner to Mr J C Hanna. July 4, 1896.
A public banquet in honor of the Right Hon R J Seddon, Premier of New Zealand. Toast list. January 17th, 1898. Printed at the Argus Office, Greymouth.
Complimentary dinner to Right Hon R J Seddon and Mrs Seddon. Printed at the Star Office. [Toast list. ca 1898].
Handwritten menu for an unknown and probably private occasion, but featuring quotations by Crosbie Ward (1832-1867), Alfred Domett (1811-1887), W P Reeves (1857-1932), and W M Maskell (1839-1898). Date probably 1890s. This menu was removed from an unidentified scrapbook of scraps dated ca 1870-1920 (at Eph-A-SCRAPBOOK-01)
Quantity: 6 menus..
Physical Description: Engravings, on folded menus, approximately 230 x 140 mm. Plus one mounted photograph.
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- No access restrictions
- Format
- 6 menus., Ephemera, Engravings, Book illustrations, Menus, Engravings, on folded menus, approximately 230 x 140 mm. Plus one mounted photograph., Orientation: Vertical image
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Copyright
Unknown[Wellington Club]: Farewell dinner to Mr J C Hanna. [Wellingt]on Club, July 4, 1896. Menu
Date: 1896
From: [Menus, up to octavo size. 1800s]
Reference: Eph-A-DINING-1896-01
Description: Menu with two sides opening to reveal the inside spread, which displays a central menu in English and French. The inside left panel contains a poem about and an illustration of "our good old dog fox" ("Still going strong"), and the inside right panel has the seating plan for the 18 diners: R M Simpson, C P Skerrett, B Y Goring, T H Hanna, H D Crawford, D G A Cooper, A P Buller, J Webster, C Ewen, J Coates, Cap. Preston, N W Werry, T Y Wardrop, W Leo Buller, R T Turnbull, J Cahill, L Tripp, J C Hanna. Exhibited in ‘Humble: the life of 100 small objects’, exhibition curated by Barbara Lyon, in the Turnbull Gallery, National Library of New Zealand, 27 August - 17 November 2017. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Letterpress on light card, gilt-edged, 84 x 215 mm, folded to 87 x 107 mm.