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Briggs House Hotel, Chicago 1883 Thanksgiving
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Briggs House Hotel, Chicago 1883

£20.00

In the 19th century, some menu illustrations had a morbid/ mischievous sense of humor. This 1883 menu cover from the Briggs House Hotel in Chicago shows rabbits, chickens, a duck, a turtle and a frog dancing around a pot, unaware that they would shortly be inside that pot as the ingredients for a Thanksgiving dinner.

*Courtesy UNLV Special Collections

Each print is accompanied by a copy of the interior menu where available.

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