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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC01896.136 Author/Creator: Place Written: Wannsee, Germany Type: Document Date: 1900/07/19 Pagination: 4 p. ; 21 x 13 cm. Order a Copy

"Banquet given by Messrs. Ludw. Loewe & Co. in honor of the American Mechanical and Civil Engineering Associations." The list of food and drinks being served at the Banquet is in French. Along with several colored engravings there is a small photograph on the inside cover of the menu of a water-side location. A couple of signs in the photograph are in German. Written at Schwedischer Pavilion.

Loewe, Ludwig, 1837-1886

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