Using the Rare and Manuscript Collections
Special Collections Material
- Rare and Manuscript Collections on Food, Wine & Culinary HistoryThe Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections offers outstanding research materials on the history of food, wine, gastronomy and restaurants.
- Rare Cookery Book CollectionThe Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections contains more than 3,000 rare cookery books dating from the 15th century onwards.
- Not by Bread Alone: America's Culinary HeritageSelected highlights from the Rare and Manuscript Collection are featured in the electronic exhibition (Cornell University Library: Ithaca, NY, 2002). Explores the influences and inventions that have shaped American food habits over the past two hundred years.
- HEARTH, Home Economics ArchiveOnline texts from Home Economics
- Hotel School Menu CollectionThe Nestle Library collects menus from a wide variety of restaurants; everything from fine dining to quick service. Finding Aid - https://rmc.library.cornell.edu/EAD/htmldocs/RMM06452.html
- Waxman Trade Card CollectionThis collection of advertising trade cards about food and related subjects (ca. 1870-1900) provides insight into many aspects of late nineteenth-century life.
- Hotel School Cookery Subject GuideLists and links to top resources available at the Nestle Library in Statler Hall.
Menu collections from other institutions
- NYPL What's on the menu
- Menu Collection - Los Angeles Public Library
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A database of menus from Los Angeles, other cities, steamships, airlines and banquets.
- The National Restaurant Association Menu Collection
The collection was donated to Johnson & Wales University Library by the National Restaurant Association. Many of the menus featured were part of their menu design contests in the 1980s and 1990s.
- Culinary Institute of America
Select menus from CIA restaurants and events from the 1960s to 2000s; and historical menus from around the world from 1855-1923.
- Louisiana Menu and Restaurant Collection
Louisiana and New Orleans restaurant menus from the 1930s to the present.
Profile
Maureen Morris
Contact:
106 Olin Library
mm342@cornell.edu
mm342@cornell.edu
Subjects: American Indian & Indigenous Studies, Anthropology