[Dinner, luncheon and breakfast menus and programs miscellany]
Contributors: District of Columbia Federation of Women's Clubs; International Chamber of Commerce; Knights Templar (Masonic Order). Clinton Commandery No. 14 (Brooklyn, New York); League of Republican Women of the District of Columbia; Marjorie Webster Junior College (Washington, D.C.). Alumnae Association; National Civic Federation. Woman's Department; National Woman's Democratic Law Enforcement League; Norddeutscher Lloyd; Poetry Society of America; Political Study Club of Washington, D.C.; Republican Women's Executive Committee of the State of New York; United States George Washington Bicentennial Commission; Washington Alliance of Jewish Women; Women's National Democratic Club (U.S.); Aurora-Grata Scottish Rite Cathedral (Brooklyn, N.Y.); Cataract House (Niagara Falls, N.Y.); Delavan House (Albany, N.Y.); Mayflower Hotel (Washington, D.C.); Willard Hotel (Washington, D.C.); Theater Playbills and Programs Collection (Library of Congress)
Published: 1869
Language: eng
Number of pages: 32
Description: A small collection of items from 1869 to 1938 that include menus for dinners, luncheons, breakfasts and banquets with associated entertainments or ceremony programs. Items are from various locations including Albany, Brooklyn, New York City and Niagara Falls, New York and one item from Geneva, Switzerland with most items from Washington, D.C. Includes a few seating lists, invitations and song sheets. Items were found in the Library of Congress Rare Book and Special Collections Division Theater Playbills and Programs Collection miscellany.
Notes: Title devised by Library staff.

In: American theater programs of the late 19th and 20th centuries (Library of Congress).
Table of contents: title: Menus and programs from 1869-1909: [1]. Delavan House Dinner menu, Friday, October 8, 1869  [includes wine list]; title: [2]. Cataract House, Niagara Falls, menu from Wednesday, October 13, 1869; title: [3]. Clinton Commandery, No. 14, Knights Templar reception to Sir Herman R. Kretschmar, Grand Senior Warden of the Grand Commandery of the State of New York, Wednesday evening, April 13, 1904 [menu and program]; title: [4]. Norddeutscher Lloyd Bremen Dinner menu for the S.S. "Königin Luise" from June 26, 1904; title: [5]. Second annual dinner of the College Women's Club of Washington, Rauscher's, Saturday evening, April 4, 1908, 7 o'clock [menu and program]; title: [6]. Menu. Aurora Grata Cathedral, Brooklyn, N.Y. , Friday, Nov. 6, 1908 (2 copies); title: [7]. Official visit Very Eminent Edwin C. Hall, Deputy Grand Commander, State of New York, to Clinton Commandery No. 14, K.T., February 10th, 1909 menu.; title: Menus and programs from 1910-1929: [8]. Annual luncheon given by The Washington Alliance of Jewish Women, the New Ebbitt Hotel, January 21, 1913 [menu and program]; title: [9]. Luncheon in honor of the delegates to the annual Conventionn of the Woman's Department, the National Civic Federation by the Bureau Cooperative Lunch Association, Tuesday, January 18, 1916, at two o'clock, in the lunchroom, Bureau of Engraving & Printing, Washington, D.C. [menu and program]; title: [10]. The Republican Women's Executive Committee of the State of New York, Hotel Astor, Wednesday evening, December 3rd [1919] [menu and progam]; title: [11]. Dinner under the auspices of The Woman's National Democratic Club in honour of Her Excellency the Governor of Wyoming at the Mayflower Hotel, Saturday, March 7, 1925 [menu and program]; title: [12]. Banquet, National Woman's Democratic Law Enforcement League, The Mayflower, May 7, 1927 [menu and program]; title: [13]. [Alpha-Phi-Beta], Saturday, June 11, 1927 [menu and program]; title: [14]. Program and seating list, luncheon in honor of Rt. Hon. J. Ramsay MacDonald, P.C., Prime Minister of Great Britain, Hotel Astor, New York, Friday, October 11, 1929, under the combined auspices of St. Andrew's Society, St. George's Society, St. David's Society, and the English Speaking Union of the United States [menu and program].; title: Menus and programs from 1930-1932: [15]. Twenty-ninth annual dinner of the Poetry Society of America, Park Lane Hotel, Thursday, January 29, 1931 [seating list]; title: [16]. Annual luncheon of the District of Columbia Federation of Women's Clubs, Mayflower Hotel, Wednesday, June 10, 1931, one o'clock [menu and program]; title: [17]. Dinner, Sixth General Congress, International Chamber of Commerce, Washington Auditorium, Thursday evening, May 7, 1931 [menu and program]; title: [18]. Printed card with abbreviations, c.1889 [seating list? Found accompanying no. 17]; title: [19]. The Women's Titanic Memorial Association and the Director of Public Buildings and Public Parks request the honor of your presence at the ceremony attending the Unveiling of the Titanic Memorial on Tuesday afternoon, May twenty-sixth, 1931 at four thirty o'clock on the Rock Creek and Potomac Parkway at the intersection of New Hampshire Avenue and E. Street Washington, D.C. [printed invitation]; title: [20]. Marjorie-Webster-School's ninth annual alumnae banquet, New Willard Hotel, Wednesday, May 27th, 1931 [menu and program, song book]; title: [21]. Political Study Club annual breakfast, Saturday, May 23, 1931, Mayflower Hotel, twelve o'clock, noon [menu and program]; title: [22]. Floor Committee for United States George Washington Bicentennial Ball, Mayfower Hotel, February 22, 1932, Brigadier General William E. Horton, United States Army, Retired, chairman [program]; title: [23]. Political Study Club, annual breakfast, Thursday, May 26 [1932], Mayflower Hotel, twelve o'clock, noon [menu and program].; title: Menus and programs from 1933-1939: [24]. In honor of Mrs. Hoover, the League of Republican Women of the District of Columbia luncheon, the Willard, February 11, 1933 [menu and program]; title: [25]. The League of Republican Women of the District of Columbia honors Dolly Gann, The Mayflower, March 2, 1933 [menu and program]; title: [26]. Political Study Club annual breakfast, The Mayflower Hotel, Saturday, May 27, 1933 at one o'clock [menu and program]; title: [27]. St. Andrew's Day Dinner, Geneva, 1935, Chairman Captain A.D.C. Russell, Saturday, 30th Nov. 1935 [menu and program]; title: [28]. Theodore Williams Noyes, eightieth birthday anniversary dinner, January 26, 1938, the Willard Hotel, Washington, D.C. [menu, program and 2 copies of seating list].