Au Chat Noir, New York 1900 Sizes:A2 (420x594mm) Archival Print (Unframed) and author

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The 1940s and 1950s saw the Art Deco styled New Yorker at the peak of its popularity and it was widely regarded as one of New York's most fashionable hotels

This witty menu from the late 19th century shows behind-the-scenes views of the restaurant service at a very grand and elegant hotel in Paris

ending the era of mass immigration

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Au Chat Noir, New York 1900 Sizes:A2 (420x594mm) Archival Print (Unframed) and authorAu Chat Noir was a hotel, restaurant and after theatre supper club in Tin Pan Alley, a neighborhood in the city of New York where publishers and songwriters in the late 19th and early 20th centuries worked and socialised. Like many venues of the era, it would have had a lively atmosphere with composers, song pluggers, vaudeville and Broadway performers coming and going. There was a full orchestra in the supper club, playing till 1am every day of the