Creator
Private Residence
Title
Four O'clock Lunch
Coverage
Flint, Michigan
Date
October 27, 1885
Description
This card is one of eighteen printed and manuscript menus that provide a glimpse of everyday life in a small Midwestern town in the mid-1880s. The lunches, teas, and suppers were held by a group of fourteen women who were friends and relatives. They called themselves the “XIV.” The printed menus were most likely supplied by Francis H. Rankin, Jr., a newspaper publisher and job printer whose wife, “Carrie” Rankin, brought the cocoanut [sic] cake to this potluck gathering.