June’s source of the month is a partially-digitized collection of menus dating from the 1840s to the present, available online via the New York Public Library.
The New York Public Library’s menu collection is housed in its Rare Book Division, and originated through the efforts of Miss Frank E. Buttolph (1850-1924), who began to collect menus on the Library's behalf in 1900. Miss Buttolph added more than 25,000 menus to the collection before leaving the Library in 1924. The collection has continued to grow through additional gifts of graphic, gastronomic, topical, or sociological interest