Hotel Cleveland, Cleveland 1919 Sizes:A3 (297x420mm) Archival Print (Unframed) Now Billingsley needed a favor

Now Billingsley needed a favor back

Illustrated menus were still quite unusual in the early 20th century so this single page menu with the golden crest of the hotel embossed on the top left hand side was typical of the time

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Entertainment in the evenings was a huge part of passenger enjoyment and this pretty menu illustration was for a dinner dance with a carnival theme

Hotel Cleveland, Cleveland 1919 Sizes:A3 (297x420mm) Archival Print (Unframed) Now Billingsley needed a favorHotel Cleveland: This 1,000 room hotel was built in 1918 by the Van Sweringen brothers as part of an attempt to revitalize the citys Public Square area. The delicate menu cover is lovely and has an art nouveau ring to it but it is the interior of this 1919 menu that fascinates. It has 267 items on offer including 14 clams and oysters dishes, main courses that included frogs legs and terrapin as well as beef and lamb,18 types of potato and 16 desserts