With their ornate borders surrounding a field providing room for a glue-on photo above and the name of the party below, these menus were clearly designed to be used for tours or special events. The ragged edge and string binding (superfluous when there is no menu insert) add touches of elegance to the menus.
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Adorned with a photo of Mt. Grinnell taken from near the Many Glacier Hotel, this menu was used at a Great Northern employees dinner in Minneapolis. Inside, an insert is bound into the menu with a string, but this was unnecessary as just two of the four pages of the insert were printed.
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The same photo was used on this menu with a very different border. Note that the photo label generically says “In Glacier National Park,” which could apply to a lot of photos. The menu itself — printed on the inside rendering the string binding unnecessary — seems to offer as entrées a choice of pike, stuffed peppers, beef tenderloin, or cucumbers. Would cucumbers be an entrée?
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A different Glacier Park photo was used on this menu. The Minot Rotary Club elected to have chicken pot pie as the featured entrée for this dinner, though the menu doesn’t say whether the Leland-Parker Hotel used Great Northern’s recipe. The railroad’s connection to the meeting is seen in the agenda, which includes presentations by four different Great Northern officials.
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Here’s a menu blank I found in the Minnesota History Center files. Unlike the previous menus, this one came pre-printed with an image showing Many Glacier Hotel. Like the others, it has an ornate border and a space below the image to print the name of the event or tour group.