Carmen's International Coffee Lounge

Date: 1960 - 2003 - 1969

Reference: Eph-B-PEOPLE-Rupe

Description: Includes: Carmen's Coffee Lounge [Wellington]. Menu [1960s?] Les Girls Theatre Restaurant, King Cross Sydney. Menu and wine list [1960s?] Carmen business cards -2 copies of 2 different cards with photograph [ca 2003] Promotional flier ca 2003 (2 copies) Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Offset and digital prints, photolithographs, sizes varying Provenance: Donated by Carmen Rupe, Australia, 2008 Transfers: Collection as a whole was received by Photographic Archive PA-Group-00255. Material transferred to Manuscripts and Archives and Printed Ephemera from there..

Date: [ca 1950-2006]

By: Carmen (Carmen Rupe), 1936-2011

Reference: PA-Group-00255

Description: Photographs of Carmen Rupe taken ca 1950s-2000s by various photographers Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 16 colour original photographic print(s) colour original photographic print(s). 19 digital print(s). 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). 20 b&w original photographic print(s). 6 album(s) Album(s). 10 b&w copy photographic print(s). Physical Description: Photographic prints Provenance: Donated by Carmen Rupe, Australia, 2008 Transfers: Collection as a whole was received by Photographic Archive. Material transferred to Manuscripts & Archives and Ephemera from here. - To Manuscripts & Archives - Newspaper and magazine clippings and cards (MS-Group-1729) - To Ephemera Collection - Carmen's Coffee Lounge poster, Les Girls Theatre Restaurant menu and business cards. Also in Ephemera Collection - portrait poster (Eph-B-PEOPLE-Rupe-2003-01) - To Oral History Collection - Three sound recordings - To Book Collections - Autographed biography of Carmen.

Date: 1967-1979

From: Carmen (Carmen Rupe), 1936- : Ephemera including business cards, menu, Sydney and Wellington

Reference: Eph-B-PEOPLE-Rupe-1960s-01

Description: Menu on black card, listing at left the drinks available at the coffee lounge (hot and ice coffee, tea, hot and ice chocolate; also cold drinks). It states opening hours with openings to 3am on weekend nights. At right is a list of pies, savouries, biscuits, toasted sandwiches, served by charming hostesses. At the extreme right, in gold print is a head and shoulders three-quarter portrait of one such charming hostess. The Coffee Lounge was opened around 1967-1968. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Relief print, on card, 220 x 283 mm. Transfers: Other material of the same provenance is housed at Manuscripts MS-Group-1729. Transfers made from there.