Here’s a menu that was used in the Glacier Park Hotel on Tuesday, August 3. The menu doesn’t state what year it was used, but August 3 fell on a Tuesday in 1915, 1920, 1926, 1932, and 1937. The Glacier Park Hotel didn’t exist before 1910 and I doubt the menu is from the post-war era, so it must be from one of those years.

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The photograph of Iceberg Lake says “Photo by Hileman.” That would be Tomar Jacob Hileman (1882-1945), who was born in Pennsylvania but moved to Kalispell, Montana in 1911. He clearly loved Glacier Park as he and Alice Georgeson were the first couple to marry in the park.

In 1924, Great Northern named him its official company photographer and he started taking hundreds of photos of the park and Blackfeet Indians. In 1926, he opened photo labs in both the Glacier Park and Many Glacier hotels. That suggests this menu is from not from 1915 or 1920. Because I presume GN would have wanted to quickly promote its new official photographer, I’m going to go with 1926.

The unpriced menu is mimeographed onto the card. That doesn’t help with dating as mimeography goes back to before 1900. Entrées include chinook salmon, beef pot roast, lamb, beef tenderloin, and assorted cold meats. Desserts included baked custard, grape sherbet, and butter Scotch cookies. Instead of just coffee, tea, or milk, beverages also included cocoa and iced tea.