As this one illustrates, Canadian Pacific’s postwar menus differed in several way from the prewar versions. While the subject matter was often the same, the postwar menus used real color photographs printed using the four-color process. The photos were positioned in a variety of ways, and not always centered as they were in the prewar era.
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In this case, the photo is in the upper left corner with no borders around the top or left side. Other than a small white border on the bottom and right side of the photo, the rest of the cover is printed with a pinkish color that I suspect is magenta. Other menus in this series are printed in yellow or cyan — in other words, each uses one of the primary colors of the CYMK (cyan-yellow-magenta-black) printing process. Continue reading