The first menu today has a Walter Loos painting that we’ve previously seen inside the 1927 edition of Great Northern’s Call of the Mountains. GN commissioned Loos to make a number of these wildflower paintings; most of the originals were … Continue reading
The first Great Northern menu today has a cover that seems to have been custom-designed for one tour, in this case of a trade tour for Spokane merchants. The image on the cover shows an industrialized Spokane Falls; I recently … Continue reading
Great Northern kept its media campaign going when the 1924 Oriental Limited reached its first anniversary. This elaborate menu cover encloses a standard two-page menu contained within six pages of text and photos advertising the train. Click image to download … Continue reading
The Great Northern archive at the Minnesota History Center has a huge number of different menus from the mid-1920s, the period I searched through to find information about the historical expeditions of 1925 and 1926. Most of the menus in … Continue reading
This childrens’ menu for the new Oriental Limited is 12 page long and includes a separate menu for every day of the week. The wood cut on the cover depicting the William Crooks is compared with the “grown up” P2 … Continue reading
Here are two more brochures promoting the 1924 Oriental Limited. Both use different graphics from yesterday’s and one is 8-1/2″x11″ instead of 7″x10″. Click image to download a 623-KB PDF of this brochure. The first one, signed by Great Northern’s … Continue reading
Other than some items that are difficult to scan because they are too large or in bindings that would break if I laid them flat on the scanner, and some trivial items such as tickets and perhaps a few postcards, … Continue reading
These three menus are all undated, but I suspect this cover was originally used in the early 1920s. One of the menus advertises that Great Northern is the “route of the Oriental Limited, and since it doesn’t apply the word … Continue reading
Except for the “season’s greetings” message on the cover, this menu uses the same, plain format as the one shown here a couple of days ago. It offers a table d’hôte lunch for 85¢ that has a choice of six … Continue reading
With its embossed image of James J. Hill on the cover, this menu is a little fancier than yesterday’s. However, the meal offerings inside are substantially the same. Although it might have been used on a transcontinental train, it was … Continue reading
