Restaurant menu from Dooky Chase's Restaurant
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1984
name: label: Written by
content: Leah Chase, American, 1923 - 2019
label: Produced by
content: Unidentified
notes: label: Description
content: A menu from Dooky Chase’s Restaurant in New Orleans, Louisiana. It is a tall, narrow trifold menu formed out of stiff laminated paper. The outside of the first two flaps is a mauve color. The cover flap has a decorative vine and floral border in pink running down the left-hand margin. Projecting out from this border at a ninety degrees angle is an illustrated pink pole with a sign and a lantern hanging from it. The sign has an off-white background with ornate dark red text that reads “DOOKY / CHASE’S.” There is decorative scrollwork attached to the top and bottom of the sign. At the bottom of the page is a rectilinear space designated by a series of curling lines. Within the space is text in dark red that reads “2301 Orleans Avenue / New Orleans, Louisiana.” The middle section of the outside has a mauve background with a large vertically oriented rectangle in the center. The rectangle has an off-white background with dense dark red text about the services the restaurant provides and the history of the restaurant. The last page of the outside of the foldout has a pale green background with dark red text. The text at the top reads “LIQUOR LIST.” On the left-hand side of the text are a pair of happy and sad drama masks in dark red ink. On the right-hand side is an illustration of a beverage glass. The inside of the trifold menu has a pale green background with dark red text. There is a decorative vine and floral border in dark red running down the side margins.
place: label: Place used
content: Tremé, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States, North and Central America
topic: label: Topic
content: African American
label: Topic
content: Activism
label: Topic
content: American South
label: Topic
content: Business
label: Topic
content: Communities
label: Topic
content: Cooking and dining
label: Topic
content: Foodways
label: Topic
content: Women
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content: National Museum of African American History and Culture Collection
label: Classification
content: Memorabilia and Ephemera - Other
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Dooky Chase Restaurant Inc. and Chase Family
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of African American History and Culture
identifier: label: Object number
content: 2021.96.1
objectType: label: Type
content: menus
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: © Dooky Chase's
label: Restrictions & Rights
content: Permission required for use. Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: ink on paper (fiber product) with plastic
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 15 1/2 × 7 in. (39.4 × 17.8 cm)