Lake of the Clouds Dinner Card

In the 1920s, Northern Pacific menus consisted of a card with a black-and-white (sometimes colorized) photo, usually taken by Asahel Curtis, on one side and the menu on the other side. We’ve already seen one with with a colorized version of photographer Richard Throssel’s Indian baby plus one of Mount Rainier that I mistakenly dated to 1908. However, L.K. Owen — whose name is on the menu side of all in this series — became NP’s superintendent of dining cars in 1921, so these menus date from that year or later.

Click image to download a 795-KB PDF of this menu.

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The menu itself is a la carte and, considering the wide variety of meats that it offers, is either for dinner of was used for both lunch and dinner. A full meal with soup, salad, entrĂ©e, vegetable, dessert, and beverage would have cost about $1.50 to $1.85, or around $21 to $26 in today’s money (multiply prices by about 14).


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