Author: [Restaurant Menu - Cincinnati]
Title: GIBSON HOUSE.; Table D'Hote Dinner 6 to 7:30 P.M.
Description: (Cincinnati): , 1903. 1st Printing. Single sheet, printed on recto only, black lettering, red ink embossed seal at head, now housed in a mylar sleeve. Broadside. 7" x 4-1/2". A VG+/NF copy, very slight rubbing to corners, faint soiling to verso, overall clean and bright. The Gibson House opened in 1849 by J.K. and D.V. Bennett and financed by Scottish immigrant Peter Gibson. The hotel was torn down in 1873 and a larger one was built in its place. This menu is from the days of the second building. A fire destroyed this building in 1912. It was built again, and then sold to the Sheraton in 1950s and ultimately closed its doors and was demolished in the 1970s.

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