Mar 26, 2015 - Sale 2377

Sale 2377 - Lot 354

Unsold
Estimate: $ 750 - $ 1,000
(FOOD & DRINK) SOUTHERN PACIFIC CO. Southern Pacific Company. Special Recipes for Guidance of Chefs on Dining, Café, and Coffee Shop Cars. 225 pages with 5 pages of lined paper at the end for notes. Tall 12mo, original cloth-backed stiff card covers, printed in black Np, 1944

Additional Details

rare little pocket guide for chefs on the Southern Pacific Railroad. The preliminary pages are filled with Southern Pacific's strict rules regarding everything from dress code and uniform to smoking and "free meals," etc. One of the most powerful railroad companies of the 19th century, its chefs, waiters, and conductors were black.