Printed Buena Vista Spring Hotel Menu on Lg. Watercolor decorated Paper Hand Fan 1894, Asian Motif - Chrysanthemum

Blue Ridge Mountains, 1894. An 8 bamboo blade paper covered fan with a watercolor Asian inspired chrysanthemum motif. On the left 1/3 of one side of the fan is an applied menu for the Buena Vista Spring Hotel, Franklin Co., PA. It is for Dinner on Sunday, August 5, 1894. Fare includes leg of mutton with piquant sauce, Filet of Boeuf a l'Italienne, Breast of Veal with tomato stuffing, Cymlings (pattypan squash), California Fruit Pie and much more. Measures 13 1/2" x 24" when open. The Buena Vista Spring Hotel was an elegant resort hotel of it's day. It was located 70 miles from Baltimore, elevated 1500 ft above sea level and overlooks the Cumberland Valley on one side and the Historic Battlefields of Gettysburg on the other. An 1891 advertisement promotes the hotel as "A dry atmosphere, pure water, perfect sanitize. All modern improvements, Elevators, etc.