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Harley J. Spiller collection
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Cruise menus

File contains:
-Four booklet style menus from Victoria Cruises
-A fan menu from the M.S. Tijluwah.
-M.S. Ruys Chinese Dinner menu printed on lace handkerchief, November 7, 1964.
-M.S. Leverkusen Chinese Special Dish menu from December 25th, 1936, the Hamburg-Amerika Linie

Menus

The series comprises menus from around the world featuring a variety of cuisines including Afghan, American Argentinian, Armenian, Asian, Bangladeshi, Brazilian, Burmese, Cambodian, Caribbean, Chinese (Peking, Szechuan, Shanghai, Yunnan, Mandarin, Cantonese, Hunan and Jiangnan), Colombian, Cuban, Dutch, Ecuadorian, Egyptian, European, Filipino, Finnish, French, Hong Kong style, Indian, Indochinese, Indonesian, Islamic, Israeli, Italian, Jamaican, Japanese, Korean, Laotian, Latin American, Lebanese, Malaysian, Mediterranean, Mexican, Middle Eastern, Mongolian, Moroccan, Mughlai, Nepalese, Pakistani, Pan-Asian, Peruvian, Russian, Scandinavian, Singaporean, Southwestern, Spanish, Taiwanese, Thai, Tibetan, Turkish, Venezuelan, Vietnamese, seafood and vegetarian.

Menus are from restaurants located in Kenya, Morocco, South Africa, China (Beijing, Hangzhou and Shanghai), Egypt, Guam, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Israel, Japan, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, Tibet, Turkey, Vietnam, Austria, Belgium, the Czech Republic, Denmark, England, Finland, France, Germany, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Malta, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Russia, Scotland, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Wales, Antigua and Barbuda, the Bahamas, Bermuda, Canada (British Columbia, Manitoba, Newfoundland and Labrador, Northwest Territories, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Quebec, Saskatchewan and Yukon Territory), Costa Rica, Cuba, Curaçao, El Salvador, Greenland, Guatemala, Mexico, Panama, the United States (Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin and Wyoming), Australia, New Caledonia (France) New Zealand, Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Peru and Venezuela.

Menus types included placemat menus, single sheet menus, trifold and four fold, five fold and seven fold menus and menus in booklet style. Some menus are laminated while others are in vinyl enclosures. Menus range from take away and delivery to eat in and include wine lists as well.

Menus from hotels, cruises and airlines are also included in this series.

The series is divided into 6 subseries: Africa, Asia, Europe, North America, Oceania and South America. The division is based on the 7-continent model, substituting Australia as a continent and replacing it with Oceania for greater geographical coverage.

Postcards and paper souvenirs

  • UTSC 006-2-3
  • Subseries
  • 1904, 1910-1913, 1925, 1927, 1929, 1936, [ca. 1937], [ca. 1940], 1944-1945, [ca. 1947], [ca. 1950], 1952, [ca. 1960], 1979, 1990, 2012
  • [இதன்] பகுதியானHarley J. Spiller collection

Subseries contains postcard souvenirs from restaurants and other paper souvenirs, including photographs and cards.

Porcelain alcohol bottle

Bottle has herons, trees, and Chinese letters in gold painted on but are fading. Includes a note about the bottle from Harley Spiller.

Toys and music

Subseries contains various food-themed toys and records.

Various tea cups

Gala Manor Banquet Hall
Red Willow pattern, made by Walker China
Lotus Room, Denver, Colorado
Empire Szechuan Paradise (2 cups with handles)
Shotglass from Ollie's Savonara Party, 1998

2 chopstick travel sets

University of Toronto Scarborough chopsticks in silver case
Chopsticks and cutlery in orange case with label "Jackie's 80th Birthday"

Lacquer tiffin boxes

Black lacquer boxes with a floral painted pattern. Contains a note from Spiller with the following information: tiffin boxes were collected by a woman who attended the tiffin in honour of Chinese viceroy Li Hung Chung, possibly on the West coast. Tiffins contain dried coconut, watermelon seeds, and preserved bird's nest.

5 various cloths from restaurants

Orange cloth napkin from Chin Chin, outside of Taipei
Green napkins (2) with initials "g.m."
Chinese take out tea towel
Pink tablecloth

Two children's games

"Good Fortune" dim sum play set with plastic food
Wooden "Stir Fry" slicing playset

Six drinking glasses

From the following:
King Yum Restaurant (2) 29th anniversary, March 1982, Flushing, New York
Budweiser 2003 Year of the Ram beer glass
Budweiser 2000 Year of the Dragon beer glass
Hong-Kong restaurant from Germany [?]
Chiam restaurant, Chicago

Eight porcelain tableware items

Purchased from Shanghai Museum gift shop, includes note about provenance from Harley Spiller. Dishes and spoons have price stickers with Chinese writing on them. Includes:
2 raised condiment bowls
2 small blue and white condiment bowls
1 blue and white soup spoon
3 soup spoons with painted flowers

5 Chinese restaurant glass ashtrays

From the following restaurants:
Richard Mei's King Dragon
Chao's Chinese restaurant
Gum Ying (Hempstead, New York)
Irene's Chinese Cuisine (Southampton, New York)
Mei Lin (Bronx, New York)

4 plastic menu holders

From the following:
Blue Girl The Premium Beer
Pink menu holder with two gold fish and Chinese character 福 (blessing) Fu (Pinyin)
Yellow menu holder in the shape of a temple with characters 潮州城 (Chiu Chow City, Cantonese) Chao Zhou Cheng (Pinyin)
Tsingtao Beer, in the shape of a fan

7 Chinese soup spoons

One blue willow pattern
2 yellow with flowers
1 bronze with dragon
2 flowered
1 from Susanna Foo restaurant with additional chopstick rest and spoon rest

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