Here’s a menu in what I call the Artist’s Series. We’ve previously seen Shakespeare, John Constable, and Robert Burns, all of which were dated 1957. This one honors John Milton and is dated 1961. Since all of the other steamship … Continue reading
The U.S. ambassador to the United Kingdom is sometimes known as the ambassador to the Court of St. James’s. This name is derived from St. James’s Palace, the oldest royal palace in London (which for some reason the menu spells … Continue reading
We’ve seen this photograph before on a 1941 menu in what I call the Bodoni series (with vertical lines framing the photo) as well as on this 1947 menu in what I call the Center Portrait series, which also had … Continue reading
Here are ten “memograms” by Florence DeMuth, the resident artist aboard many of Canadian Pacific’s cruises in the late 1920s and 1930s. The drawings include scenes of Gibraltar, Naples, Venice, Greece, the Nile, Palestine, Zanzibar, South Africa, Buenos Aires, and … Continue reading
M. Leone Bracker preferred to draw real people, not models. This suggests somewhere on the Canadian prairie lived a farm family who looked like the people on the cover of this menu. Canadian Pacific must have offered Bracker a pass … Continue reading
Just as yesterday’s Angus Shops menu represented Canadian Pacific’s railroad operations, the Empress of Japan menu represented its steamships, so this menu, with Banff Springs Hotel on the cover, represents its hotel operations. Thanks to Canadian Pacific, “from one end … Continue reading
Several years ago, I posted menus from the Chung collection that featured steamships on the cover. One showed the Empress of Japan along with some sights people might see in Asia, possibly on a Canadian Pacific world cruise. On my … Continue reading
This beautiful cover is a blatant example of bait and switch as the inside of this booklet says almost nothing about resorts in the Rockies. The inside front cover lists 13 Canadian Pacific hotels, only three of which were in … Continue reading
We saw this colorful booklet with text by Katherine Hale and paintings by Charles Walter Simpson here a couple of years ago. Since I try not to post incomplete items, I was disappointed to realize that the copy I had … Continue reading
James Wolfe died leading the British at the Battle of Quebec in the French and Indian War. Despite the loss of their leader, the British won the battle, leading France to cede Quebec to Britain. Wolfe had been born and … Continue reading
