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Menus & printed ephemera · July 19, 1861

Savin Rock House — Yale Class of ’63 bill of fare

Hotels, streetcars, amusements & the West Haven shoreline

A Savin Rock House bill of fare for Yale’s Class of ’63 jubilee on July 19, 1861. The menu names proprietor E. A. Upson beneath a hotel engraving.

Evidence, credit & reuse: Public domain in the United States. US printed menu dated July 19, 1861; copyright expired. AAS supplies the mechanical scan. AAS exhibition describes this circa 1861; the item itself prints Friday, July 19, 1861. Date is an event/publication date, not a photographic date. Resized if needed and JPEG-compressed. No crop, rotation, colorization, retouching, or generated content.

Source: T. J. Stafford, printer (imprint); E. A. Upson, hotel proprietor (printed on menu). American Antiquarian Society. Public domain in the United States.

Savin Rock House — Yale Class of ’63 bill of fare
T. J. Stafford, printer (imprint); E. A. Upson, hotel proprietor (printed on menu). American Antiquarian Society. Public domain in the United States.. July 19, 1861. Open the full image to inspect small print.

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Silent Grounds Collective, Savin Rock, SGC-SR-012, SR-011, “Savin Rock House — Yale Class of ’63 bill of fare.” Source: T. J. Stafford, printer (imprint); E. A. Upson, hotel proprietor (printed on menu). American Antiquarian Society. Public domain in the United States.. https://collections.americanantiquarian.org/vacationing/resortsandhotels.htm. Research edition, accessed 2026-09-08.

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