Wednesday, January 26, 2022

An Early Chidren's Menu

Boston, 
1885 


Menus designed exclusively for children first appeared in department stores and railroad dining cars in the 1920s and were more broadly adopted by restaurants after the Second World War. A hand-written menu from a seven-year-old birthday party in February 1885 reveals what a children’s menu might have looked like had they existed in public dining spaces in the late nineteenth century.