We’ve seen this cover before but with a red cover instead of orange and on a dinner menu instead of lunch. It shows a plaza behind Oregon’s Timberline Lodge with a horse standing next to a table where people are … Continue reading
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Here’s the first of three more Northern Pacific menus that I photographed at the Minnesota History Center. These are from what I call the “Rustic Photo” series in which sepia-toned photographs are pasted onto the menu covers. The menus are … Continue reading
This menu introduces a new gateway to Yellowstone, the “Red Lodge HIGHRoad,” now known as the Beartooth Highway. We’ve previously seen a 12-page booklet about the road that NP also published shortly after it opened in 1936. Both the booklet … Continue reading
This lavender-colored cover with a photo of dude ranch cabins on a Montana river makes me want to go to Montana — and I live on a former dude ranch in Oregon! The back cover of the menu invites people … Continue reading
Like yesterday’s North Dakota menu, this one promised meals that were all products of Montana. Unlike yesterday’s dinner menu, this one is for both lunch and dinner. Apparently, the entrĂ©es rotated as that part of both the lunch and dinner … Continue reading
“North Dakota needs new settlers,” wrote Governor Ragnvald Nestos on the back of this menu. “We have room for them to live and to succeed.” Nestos was governor from 1921 to 1925. Click image to download a 645-KB PDF of … Continue reading
Here are three more NP menus in the black & white photocard series. As previously noted, these were probably used as advertisements for the dining car and train more than as menus themselves. None of these are in my collection; … Continue reading
At 148 square miles, Lake Pend O’Reille is huge, so it is probably impossible to know where this particular photo was taken. The menu card spells the name with an apostrophe; it is usually spelled without one today. Like yesterday’s … Continue reading
“Camping in the Cascades” is the title of this Asahel Curtis photo with Mount Rainier in the background. Like the Mount Rainier menu card presented a few days ago, this one was contributed by Streamliner Memories reader Jake Barker. Click … Continue reading
As the Missouri River leaves the Rockies, it passed through a 1,200-foot-deep canyon that Meriwether Lewis called “Gates of the Mountains.” This photograph is titled “Gate of the Mountains,” but since “gates” implies more than one and only one of … Continue reading