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Coffeehouses

Here are entered works on public places that specialize in serving coffee and other refreshments and that sometimes provide informal entertainment or serve as a place where groups meet for a particular purpose. Works on small, inexpensive restaurants, independently operated or part of a hotel, where light refreshments or regular meals are served are entered under Coffee shops.

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• Restaurants

• Coffeehouses -- Early works to 1800
• Coffeehouses -- England
• Coffeehouses -- France
• Coffeehouses -- Government policy
• Coffeehouses -- Management
• Coffeehouses -- Massachusetts
• Coffeehouses -- Moral and ethical aspects
• Coffeehouses -- New York (State)
• Coffeehouses -- Ontario
• Coffeehouses -- Poetry

• Coffee bars

• Coffee : a monograph of the economic species of the genus Coffea L. (New York University Press, 1925), by Ralph Holt Cheney (page images at HathiTrust)
• Le café, poème ; accompagné de documents historiques sur le café, sur son origine, sur son commerce, et sur les peuples d'Orient, qui font spécialement usage du café. (J. Ledoyen, 1837), by Méry C. de (page images at HathiTrust)
• Politische Kaffeehäuser; Pariser Silhouetten aus der grossen Französischen Revolution. (Dietz, 1925), by Heinrich Cunow (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Early history of coffee houses in England : with some account of the first use of coffee and a bibliography of the subject (K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co., Ltd., 1893), by Edward Forbes Robinson (page images at HathiTrust)

• The coffee house or News-mongers Hall. In which is shewn their several sorts of passions, containing news from all our neighbour nations. A poem. (London, : Printed by E[dward]. Crowch, for T[homas]. Vere, at the Angel withour New-gate, 1672) (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• By the King. A proclamation for the suppression of coffee-houses. (London : Printed by the assigns of John Bill, and Christopher Barker, printers to the Kings most excellent Majesty, 1675), by England and Wales. Sovereign (1660-1685 : Charles II) and King Charles II of England (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• The coffee-mans granado discharged upon the Maidens complaint against coffee. In a dialogue between Mr. Black-burnt and Democritus; wherein is discovered severall strange, wonderful, and miraculous cures performed by coffee, (the like never heard of since the creation.) with the names of the persons, and places of their abode, who were cured when left off by the physitians. Also some merry passages between Peg and Cis, two merry milk-maids of Islington, touching the rare vertues of chocolate / written by Don Bollicosgo Armuthaz. (London : Printed for J. Johnson, 1663), by Bollicosgo Armuthaz (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• A brief description of the excellent vertues of that sober and wholesome drink, called coffee, And its incomparable effects in preventing or curing most diseases incident to humane bodies. (London, : Printed for Paul Greenwood, and are to be sold at the sign of the Coffee-Mill and Tobacco Roll in Cloath-fair West-Smithfield who selleth the best arabian coffee-powder and chocolate, made in cake or in roll, after the Spanish fashion, &c, 1674) (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• By the King: A Proclamation for the Suppression of the Coffee-Houses (London: Printed by the Assigns of J. Bill, and C. Barker, 1675), by King Charles II of England (HTML in Germany)

• News from the coffe-house; in which is shewn their several sorts of passions, containing newes from all our neighbour nations. A poem. (London, : Printed by E. Crowch for Thomas Vere at the Cock in St. John's-street, 1667) (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• The Early History of Coffee Houses in England; With Some Account of the First Use of Coffee, and a Bibliography of the Subject, by Edward Robinson (multiple formats at archive.org)
• A descriptive catalogue of the London traders, tavern, and coffee-house tokens current in the seventeenth century (Printed for the use of the members of the Corporation of the City of London, 1853), by England) Guildhall Library (London, Jacob Henry Burn, and Henry Benjamin Hanbury Beaufoy (page images at HathiTrust)
• The early history of coffee houses in England; with some account of the first use of coffee and a bibliography of the subject (K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & co., ltd., 1893), by Edward Robinson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Coffee-houses vindicated in ansvver to the late published Character of a coffee-house asserting from reason, experience, and good authours, the excellent use and physical vertues of that liquor : with the grand conveniency of such civil places of resort and ingenious conversation. (London : Printed by J. Lock for J. Clarke, 1673) (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• The Mens Answer to the Womens Petition against Coffee: Vindicating Their Own Performances, and the Vertues of That Liquor, From the Undeserved Aspersions Lately Cast Upon Them by Their Scandalous Pamphlet (London, 1674) (HTML in Germany)
• The Character of a coffee-house with the symptomes of a town-wit. (London : Printed for Jonathan Edwin ..., 1673) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The Mens answer to the womens petition against coffee vindicating their own performances and the virtues of that liquor from the undeserved aspersions lately cast upon them by their scandalous pamphlet. (London : [s.n.], 1674) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The Maidens complain[t] against coffee, or, The coffee-house discovered beseiged, stormed, taken, untyled and lai[d] open to publick view ... written by Merc. Democ. at his chamber in the world in the moon for the ben[efit] of all the mad-merry-conceited people under the sun. (London : Printed for J. Jones, 1663) (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Clubs and club life in London : with anecdotes of its famous coffee-houses, hostelries and taverns, from the seventeenth century to the present time (Chatto and Windus, 1872), by John Timbs (page images at HathiTrust)
• Englische kaffeehäuser als sammelpunkte der literarischen welt im zeitalter von Dryden und Addison. (Frommann, 1924), by Hermann Westerfrölke (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Notice and extracts relating to the Lion's Head, which was erected at Button's Coffee-House, in the year 1713. (Saunders and Otley, 1828), by Charles Richarson (page images at HathiTrust)

• A character of coffee and coffee-houses by M.P. (London : Printed for John Starkey, 1661), by 17th cent M. P. (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• The coffee scuffle, occasioned by a contest between a learned knight, and a pitifull pedagogue. With the character of a coffee-house. (Lodon [sic] : Printed and are to be sold at the Latine Coffee House near the Stocks, 1662), by fl. 1662 Woolnoth (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• The coffee publichouse : how to establish and manage it. Talbot collection of British pamphlets. (The Coffee Publichouse Association, 28 Mount Street, Grosvenor Square, W., 1878) (page images at HathiTrust)

• A Character of Coffee and Coffee-Houses (London: John Starkey, 1661), by M. P. (HTML in Germany)

• Historie des cafés de Paris : extraite des mémoires d'un viveur ... (Desloger, 1857), by Marc Constantin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Histoire des cafés de Paris extraite des mémoires d'un viveur : cafés du palais-royal, des boulevards, de ville, etc ([s.n.], 1857), by Marc Constantin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Histoire anecdotique des cafés & cabarets de Paris (E. Dentu, 1862), by Alfred Delvau, Benno Loewy, Félicien Rops, Léopold Flameng, and Gustave Courbet (page images at HathiTrust)
• Cafés de Paris (Paris : Lécrivain, libraire, boulevard des Capucines, no. 1, 1819., 1819), by Etienne-François Bazot, J. D. B. Dupréel, and Lécrivain (page images at HathiTrust)

• The coffee publichouse how to establish and manage it. (S.W. Partridge & Co. and the Coffee Publichouse Association, 1879), by Coffee Publichouse Association (page images at HathiTrust)

• Ye Crown coffee house : a story of old Boston (Henderson & Ross, 1916), by Walter Kendall Watkins and Boston Crown coffee house (page images at HathiTrust)

• Alice Foote MacDougall; the autobiography of a business woman ... (Little, Brown, and Company, 1928), by Alice Foote MacDougall (page images at HathiTrust)

• Report. (Brooklyn, 1886) (page images at HathiTrust)

• The charter, by-laws and regulations of the Ottawa Temperance Coffee House Co. Limited incorporated by provincial letters patent, 7th May, 1884. (s.n.], 1884), by Ottawa Temperance Coffee House Company (page images at HathiTrust)

• The character of a coffee-house wherein is contained a description of the persons usually frequenting it, with their discourse and humors, as also the admirable vertues of coffee / by an eye and ear witness. ([London : s.n.], 1665), by Eye and ear witness (HTML at EEBO TCP)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• The Savarin Cookbook: Scientific Cooking for Profit (New York and London: Harper and Bros., 1929), by Baptistin Allevi (page images at HathiTrust)
• Interiors book of restaurants (Whitney Library of Design, 1960), by William Wilson Atkin and Joan Adler (page images at HathiTrust)
• Licensed houses and their management, the trade encyclopædia. A practical work for hotel-keepers, innkeepers, licensed victuallers, wine and spirit merchants, off-licence holders, club secretaries, club stewards, caterers, etc. (Caxton Pub. Co., 1927), by William Bently Capper (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Adventures in good eating. (Duncan Hines Institute., 1936), by Duncan Hines (page images at HathiTrust)
• Industrial lunch rooms. (National Industrial Conference Board, inc., 1928), by National Industrial Conference Board (page images at HathiTrust)
• Job descriptions for hotels and restaurants. (U. S. Govt. print. off., 1938), by United States Employment Service (page images at HathiTrust)
• Some administrative problems of the high school cafeteria. (Teachers college, Columbia university, 1926), by Willard S. Ford (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Kitchen management, construction, planning, administration (Harper & brothers, 1928), by Joseph Oliver Dahl (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Management and control of the House restaurant. (U. S. Govt. print. off., 1934), by United States. Congress. House. Special comittee to investigate management and control of the House restaurant (page images at HathiTrust)
• Extraordinary guide to what's cooking on Chicago's Near North Side (Chicago, Illinois : Henry Regnery Company, [1952], 1952), by Patricia Bronté and Franklin McMahon (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ritz's Carlton restaurant on board the S.S. "Kaiserin Auguste Victoria" (Hamburg-American line) Under the management of the Carlton hotel, London. (Hudson & Kearns, printers, 1906), by Hamburg-Amerikanische Packetfahrt-Actien-Gesellschaft and London Carlton hotel (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Some administrative problems of the high school cafeteria (Columbia University, 1926), by Willard S. Ford (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Moderne Cafés, Restaurants und Vergnügungsstätten, Aussen-und Innenarchitektur. (Ernst Pollak, 1929) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The minute chef; especially adapted for restaurants, tea rooms and luncheonettes. (Chef's guide publishing corporation, 1931), by Arthur T R ] Horton and Brooklyn Chef's guide publishing corporation (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tea-room recipes, a book for home makers and tea-room managers (Little, Brown, and company, 1925), by Lenore Richards and Nola Treat (page images at HathiTrust)
• The school lunch; its organization and management in Philadelphia (Emma Smedley, 1930), by Emma Smedley (page images at HathiTrust)
• The secret of successful restaurants (Harper & brothers, 1929), by Alice Foote MacDougall (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The San Francisco restaurant industry. (U.S. Govt. print. off., 1930), by United States. Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce (Dept. of Commerce) and Edwin Bates (page images at HathiTrust)
• The modern luncheonette; planning, layout, construction, operation. A practical guide to success in the luncheonette and restaurant business. (Dahl Pub. Co., 1947), by Ernest M Fleischman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Cafeteria recipes, for use in cafeterias, tea rooms, schools and institutions (The Womans press, 1925), by Mabel E Schadt (page images at HathiTrust)
• Restaurant management, principles and practice (Harper & brothers, 1927), by J. O. Dahl (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Shipyard workers (Govt. Print. Off., 1918), by United States Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corporation. Industrial Service Section and Frederick S. Crum (page images at HathiTrust)
• Recipes and menus for restaurant profits (The Dahls, 1940), by Alice Easton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Food sales, unlimited (Ahrens, 1952), by Paul L. H. Heine (page images at HathiTrust)
• Food service, a master plan (Pageant Press, 1953), by Kelly G. Vester (page images at HathiTrust)
• How to increase profits with portion control. (Ahrens Pub. Co., 1957), by Douglas Carlyle Keister (page images at HathiTrust)
• Food [cost] control for hotels and restaurants. (The Dahl publishing company, 1949), by Joseph Oliver Dahl (page images at HathiTrust)
• Manual for school and institutional lunchrooms. (Cleveland, 1946), by Ohio Dietetic Association (page images at HathiTrust)
• 30 years of progress in American hospitality: A historical sketch of the National Restaurant Association. (American restaurant magazine, 1949), by C. A. Patterson and National Restaurant Association (U.S.) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Wenzel's short course on restaurant operation. ([Milwaukee? Wis., 1947), by G. L. Wenzel (page images at HathiTrust)
• How to cut food costs. The Association reference book. (New York, 1946), by New York State Restaurant Association and Ernest H. Fleischman (page images at HathiTrust)
• An appraisal of Boston's school lunch program ... (Boston, 1953), by Boston Municipal Research Bureau (page images at HathiTrust)
• Manual for managers of rural and other small school lunchrooms (Printed by the Versailles policy publishing co., 1942), by Ohio dietetic association (page images at HathiTrust)
• Salads and sandwiches and specialty dishes, for restaurants and tea rooms (Harper, 1928), by Emory Hawcock (page images at HathiTrust)
• Recipes and menus for restaurant profits (Dahl, 1949), by Alice Easton (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Cafeteria recipes, arranged in three proportions, for use in cafeterias, tea rooms, schools and institutions (The Womans press, 1925), by Mabel E. Schadt (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tea room and cafeteria management (Little, Brown, and company, 1927), by R. N. Elliott (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Tea room booklet. (Woman's home companion, 1922) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Restaurant Minimum Wage Board, 1947. Material presented to the Wage Board by the Labor Department and recommendations of the Wage Board to the Industrial Commissioner. (New York, 1947), by New York (State). Department of Labor (page images at HathiTrust)
• Gebäude für Erholungs-, Beherbergungs- und Vereinszwecke. (A. Bergsträsser, 1894), by Heinrich Wagner (page images at HathiTrust)
• Palm Cafe, Donnelly (Stevens County Museum and Historical Society, Morris, MN; http://www.stevenshistorymuseum.com, 1920) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The lunch room as a money maker (Patterson publishing co., 1921), by Chester A. Patterson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Restaurant, tea room, and cafeteria operation careers. (The Institute, 1959), by Ill.) Institute for Research (Chicago (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Local job descriptions for the hotel & restaurant industry : prepared for use by the National Reemployment Service and the Minnesota State Employment Service ([publisher not identified], 1937), by United States Employment Service and Industrial Commission of Minnesota. Employment Service (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• How to be a success in the restaurant business (Greenberg, 1948), by Madeline Gray and Vass De Lo Padua (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Business management, hotels, motels, restaurants (Florida State University, 1955), by Donald E. Lundberg and C. Vernon Kane (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Guide to safe food service : a manual for use in organizing and conducting classes for food establishments and employees (U.S. Federal Security Agency, Public Health Service, U.S. Govt. print. off., 1946), by John Andrews, Frances T. Champion, and United States Public Health Service (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Sandwich shops, drive-ins, and diners ; how to start and operate them successfully. (Greenberg, 1955), by Louis X. Garfunkel (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Profitable cafeteria management. ([J. O. Dahl], 1935), by N. S. MacIntosh (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Principles of effective restaurant control (H. Fox, 1945), by Henry Fox (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Tea-room recipes : a book for home makers and tea-room managers (Little, Brown, 1930), by Lenore Richards and Nola Treat (page images at HathiTrust)
• Handbook for workers in school-lunch programs, with special reference to volunteer service. ([Washington, 1943), by United States. War Food Administration. Office of Distribution. Nutrition and Food Conservation Branch (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lisboa d'outros tempos (Lisboa : Livraria de Antonio Maria Pereira, 1898-1899., 1898), by Pinto de Carvalho (page images at HathiTrust)
• In-plant feeding in shipyards and shipbuilding plants. Hearings, Seventy-eighth Congress, first session, September and October, 1943. (U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1943), by United States House Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries (page images at HathiTrust)
• American menu maker restaurant recipes. (American Menu Maker, 1934), by G. L. Wenzel (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Auxiliary gift and coffee shop management. ([Chicago], 1962), by American Hospital Association. Council on Hospital Auxiliaries (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Use and promotion of dairy products in public eating places (U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Economic Research Service, Marketing Economics Division, 1963), by Wendell E. Clement (page images at HathiTrust)
• Canteen corps, Volunteer special services. (The American National Red Cross, 1942), by American National Red Cross (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Global cuisine : a guide to great food and great restaurants (Patron Press, 1962), by Myron Zobel (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The restaurant of the Braun plant. (C.F. Braun & Co., 1945), by C.F. Braun & Co (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Food sanitation in commercial establishments. A guide for use of sanitarians in conducting food sanitation training classes. (Berkeley, 1956), by California. Department of Public Health (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Business management: hotels, motels and restaurants (University Bookstore, 1959), by Donald E. Lundberg and C. Vernon Kane (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Green book (Victor H. Green & Co., in the 1950s) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Food service; for restaurant, coffee shop, hotel, cafeteria, home. (McKnight and McKnight Pub. Co., 1950), by Helen Livingstone (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A guide to popular restaurants. (Chicago,Ill., 1940), by National Restaurant Association (U.S.) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Nutrition programs for the elderly : a guide to menu planning, buying and the care of food for community programs (Agricultural Research Service, U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, 1975), by Louise Page and United States. Agricultural Research Service. Northeastern Region (page images at HathiTrust)
• Hidden treasures of San Francisco. The Italian food shops and delicatessen stores of San Francisco's Latin quarter are the meeting places of the Bohemians and of those who love "la cucina italiana" ... (Italian Chamber of Commerce, 1927), by California Camera di commercio italiana di San Francisco (page images at HathiTrust)
• Instructor's guide, sanitary food service ([For sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. Govt. Print. Off.], 1952), by United States. Public Health Service. Division of Sanitation. Milk and Food Branch and John Andrews (page images at HathiTrust)
• The inner man : good things to eat and drink and where to get them (Bancroft Co., 1891), by Daniel O'Connell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Business management ; hotels, motels and restaurants (Tallahassee : Peninsular Pub, [1952], 1952), by Donald E. Lundberg and C. Vernon Kane (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Menu making for professionals in quantity cookery : a reference book for food executives in hotels, restaurants, clubs, schools, soda fountains, luncheonettes, tea rooms, coffee shops, resorts, camps, cafeterias, hospitals, and institutions (Dahl, 1957), by J. O. Dahl (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Law, rules and regulations and code governing the sanitation of restaurants and other food handling establishments ([Raleigh], 1941), by North Carolina. State Board of Health (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Hotel and restaurant laws of Ohio, 1925. : Issued by Louis F. Miller, state fire marshal. ([Columbus] : [The F. J. Heer printing co.], [1925], 1925), by Ohio (page images at HathiTrust)
• Hearing on Code of fair practices and competition presented by restaurant trade industry, November 27-[29], 1933. (J.L. Ward of Ward & Paul, official reporter, 1933), by United States National Recovery Administration (page images at HathiTrust)
• National hotel review. (Gehring Pub. Co., 1923) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Restaurant management. (Ahrens Pub. Co., 1928) (page images at HathiTrust)
• National restaurant news. (Carder-Martin Pub. Co., 1918), by National Restaurant Association (U.S.) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Hospitality: restaurant. (Penton/IPC, etc.], 1919) (page images at HathiTrust)

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