Mount Eisenhower Steamship Dinner Menu

We’ve seen this photo before on dining car menus, but the bottom half of the cover was yellow instead of cyan and the cover also had a brief description of the image. Both have longer, but far from identical, captions on the back.

Click image to download a 2.6-MB PDF of this menu.

I’m trying to figure out if there is a pattern signaling that certain menu covers were used in dining cars and others in steamships or hotels, but the only thing I can say for sure is that menus with a large white blotch on the bottom half of the color area all appear to have been used on steamships. The photos themselves might be used in all three kinds of service.

Inside, page 2 has photos of Tagish Lake and the lake steamer Tutshi. After the steamer stopped running, it was displayed for many years in Carcross, where the steamship had met the White Pass & Yukon Railroad, but sadly was almost completely destroyed by a fire in 1990.


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