The American Menu

1842-1894   New York was already a rapidly growing city by 1800, with its 60,000 residents concentrated in Lower Manhattan. By the close of ...

The White House,  1885  President Chester A. Arthur was a tall and fashionably-dressed metropolitan who enjoyed the finer things in life. On...

New York City, 1895 The most entertaining thing for the average person attending an America’s Cup race is perhaps the food and drink. Once i...

New York City,  1881  Schedler’s High Bridge Hotel was located in Washington Heights, the highest and northernmost part of Manhattan. The ho...

Brooklyn, New York 1897  Brooklyn’s pastoral Prospect Park was designed by Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux, the landscape architects ...

Paris, ca. 1928 Willis Morgan was among the several hundred thousand African-American soldiers sent to France during the First World W...

New York City,  1869-1881  Antonio Savori a chieved some degree of notoriety during his lifetime. He was perhaps best known for the c...

New York City,  1869-1881  Despite the onslaught of a severe depression, Antonio Sivori got a job in early 1874 as the steward of t...

New York City,  1869-1881  By June 1872, Antonio Sivori was the proprietor of St. Mark’s Restaurant at 27th Street and Broadway, situa...

New York City,  1869-1881  One morning last spring, while combing through a box of old menus, I stumbled across a lost chapter of Amer...