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Menu Collection

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2024-079
Abstract

The Menu Collection contains 118 menus from across the world. The bulk of the menus are from the United States and Europe. Most of the menus are from the late twentieth century and early twenty-first century, along with some menus dating earlier in the twentieth century. The menus contain a wide variety of cuisines. The collection also contains additional papers, including restaurant business cards, a recipe pamphlet, and exchange rate document from the Icelandic bank.

Dates: 1939 - 2018

Persian Gulf War Pamphlets,

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2015-016
Abstract

The collection consists of six 3" x 6" pamphlets that were dropped into Iraq by U.S. aircraft during the Persian Gulf War (January-March 1991). The pamphlets urge the surrender of Iraqi troops in printed Arabic. Several Pamphlets depict cartoons and images of the destruction of the Iraqi army by Coalition Forces.

Dates: c. 1991

Qur'an Leaf

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-1990-116
Abstract

Single manuscript leaf of the Qur'an, the book of Islam, produced in the late 18th or early 19th century, possibly in Kashmir.

Dates: c.1800

Donald K. "Deke" Slayton Collection

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2023-058
Abstract This collection contains materials belonging to American astronaut, Donald K. "Deke" Slayton (1924-1993). This collection contains materials about the Apollo-Soyuz Program, programs and invitations to events, photographs, a map of Moscow, and newspaper clippings. Slayton was one of the first seven American astronauts, selected by NASA as part of the Mercury 7. He flew on the Apollo-Soyuz Progam mission, where American astronauts and Soviet cosmonauts docked together and completed several...
Dates: 1974-1979, 1995