Build an image-based collection overview from tightly spaced document tiles, with small white-on-black group labels and group sizes that visibly reflect their contents. Alternate this overview with enlarged specimens while retaining a consistent bottom narrative card and corner navigation. For a new subject, replace menus with another inspectable artifact collection and organize the groups around its dates or meaningful categories; preserve enough scan detail for close-up inspection.
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An atlas of historic restaurant menus
An archival visual story presents historic menu scans as year-grouped mosaics, dense image grids, individual close-ups, and thematic clusters. Bottom-mounted narrative cards contextualize the documents, with directional and zoom controls at upper right.
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An interactive visual archive of restaurant menus from 1880–1920, presented alongside explanatory editorial text.
- Color
- Warm off-white background, pale gray interface, and muted colors from the scanned menus, with occasional blue accents and dark borders.
- Type
- A blackletter publication mark and serif narrative paragraphs contrast with compact year labels and simple navigation controls.
- Framing
- A dense mosaic of menu thumbnails sits alongside larger menu examples and short blocks of text; zoom controls and other interface elements appear near the edges.
- Structure
- Web-based visual essay with a thumbnail grid, enlarged menu views, explanatory captions, and navigation controls.
