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Book

Tea at the Blue Lantern Inn : a social history of the tea room craze in America

Call Number

  • 647.95 W577 (CEN)

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Edition

1st ed.

Publication Information

New York : St. Martin's Press, ©2002.

Physical Description

xiii, 192 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm

Summary

Traces the rise of tearooms in early twentieth-century America, describing the unfavorable conditions of saloon-style eating out, the events that led to the tearoom craze, and the creativity of entrepreneurial women who contributed.

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