Windsor Hotel, St Paul, Thanksgiving 1883 Kitchen Towel Six burlesque performers act as

Six burlesque performers act as a frame around the program and in the centre is a busy red-headed performer who is getting ready to go on stage

As this 1947 menu shows

a French spa town in the foothills of the Alps where wealthy people from all over the world would come to rest and “take the waters

came from a steamship called La Champagne which travelled the Le Havre to New York route

Windsor Hotel, St Paul, Thanksgiving 1883 Kitchen Towel Six burlesque performers act asThis dinner menu for Thanksgiving 1883 is all about game (big and small) and lists antelope, buffalo, young black bear, red squirrel and opossum among the dishes on offer. In its day, The Windsor Hotel was the finest establishment in St Paul, Minnesota. According to Alice Monfort Dunn, the owner's daughter, who lived in the hotel with her aunt in the 1880s, political conventions were often held there, with Republicans staying in one wing of the hotel