Flier advertising Sneed's Restaurant: Museum Object and Cultural History

The object in the museum catalogue

Flier for Sneed's Restaurant. The brown paper flier has black printed text advertising [For Good Home Cooking Try / SNEED'S / RESTAURANT] at the top. There are clover graphics on either side of [RESTAURANT]. The middle of the handbill lists a variety of dishes [Tasty Sandwiches Home-Made Deserts [sic] / Roast Pork Hamburgers Pig Snots [sic] Fish /...]. [Boarders Accepted] is printed in black text below this menu with [825 Madison Ave.] at the bottom. There are decorative interweaving lines separating the sections. There are two chips on the lower right edge. The reverse is blank.

Materials, dates and provenance

• Date: 1940s
• Created by: Sneed's Restaurant, American,1940s
• Subject of: Sneed's Restaurant, American,1940s
• Type: fliers (printed matter)
• Medium: ink on paper
• Dimensions: H x W: 9 × 5 15/16 in. (22.9 × 15.1 cm)
• Place used: Baltimore, Maryland, United States, North and Central America
• Topic: African American
• Topic: Advertising
• Topic: Business
• Topic: Cooking and dining
• Object number: 2017.14.4
• Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of the Stokes/Washington Family
• Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture

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