Project
What's On The Menu?
Office of Digital Humanities
Photo caption
American Cotton Manufacturers' Association dinner menu, May 17, 1907
Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons
Photo caption
American Cotton Manufacturers' Association dinner menu, May 17, 1907
Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons
What did restaurant menus look like a century ago? A crowdsourcing project that allows the public to not only browse historic menus, but assist the New York Public Library by transcribing hard-to-read text.