This menu advertising Canadian Pacific cruises was used at the Banff Springs Hotel on September 7, 1930, less than three months before the world cruise would depart New York City. The back of the menu also mentioned the 73-day Mediterranean cruise (which would leave February 3 on the Empress of France and 29-day West Indies cruises (which would leave on January 9 and February 11 on the Duchess of Bedford).

Click image to view and download a 10.7-MB PDF of this menu from the University of British Columbia Chung collection.

The cover art is rather spectacular, but it is also an amalgamation of two paintings by Fred J. Hoertz that were used in the decks-and-fares brochure presented here yesterday. One of the paintings showed the Empress of Australia and the other a Chinese junk.

The painting on this menu cover flipped the junk and put the empress in the background. Other changes include the people in the foreground and the weathering of the junk’s sails. Because this painting is unsigned, CP’s art department probably made these changes, presumably with Hoertz’ permission.