Briggs House Hotel, Chicago 1883 1898 Noel Coward

Noel Coward

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Briggs House Hotel, Chicago 1883 1898 Noel CowardIn 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. We make our prints with