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
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
We’ve previously seen empress menus featuring William Shakespeare, Robert Burns, and John Constable. To this artist series we can add today’s menu honoring Oliver Goldsmith, an eighteenth-century Irish writer whose play, She Stoops to Conquer, is still often performed today. … Continue reading
I’ve previously told how husband-wife artist team Martin & Flora DeMuth talked Canadian Pacific into letting them go on at least 15 cruises in exchange for doing artwork and (in Martin’s case) giving lectures for those cruises. Indeed, it is … Continue reading
Canadian Pacific’s first Empress of Japan made its first revenue voyage in April, 1891, and its last one in July, 1922, thus providing more than 31 years of service during which it made 315 trans-Pacific trips. During two of those … Continue reading
Here are two more menus from the transportation history series that we haven’t seen before. The first shows an 18th-century man-of-war ship. It was used on the Empress of Canada in August, 1965. Click image to view and download a … Continue reading
The tracks that the Puffing Billy operated on passed in front of George Stephenson’s boyhood home, which still exists as a national historic site. I bicycled by this house once and took a tour before enjoying hot chocolate and scones. … Continue reading
This menu clearly has the same theme of historic transportation devices as the ones shown in the past several days, but it is a breakfast card instead of a dinner folder. The penny-farthing or high-wheeler bicycle was briefly popular before … Continue reading
According to Wikipedia, “Puffing Billy is the world’s oldest surviving steam locomotive,” having been built in 1813. The back of this menu notes that, “In the early days of railways, . . . a rate of twenty miles an hour … Continue reading
