We’ve seen a colorized version of this photo before on a Union Pacific menu. Northern Pacific also used a colorized version on one of its menu cards. It was also used on postcards, booklets, brochures, and magazine ads. It may … Continue reading
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If these menu cards were printed using some sort of photographic process, as opposed to ink, it would explain the deterioration of the images. The bluish reflections on the edges of this picture, for example, are not artifacts from the … Continue reading
Asahel Curtis (1874-1941) was a photographer whose work focused on the growth of the Northwest, and Northern Pacific used many of his photos in its early advertising. Born in Minnesota, his family moved to Washington when he was 14. His … Continue reading
I’ve previously presented Northern Pacific menu cards like this one, with a black-and-white (sometimes colorized) photo on one side and a dinner menu on the other side. I’ve always been frustrated that the menus come with no indication of a … Continue reading
We’ve seen this Sunset Limited menu before from the Ira Silverman collection at Northwestern University. Today’s example is from my own collection and is dated March, 1962 (compared with September 1962 for the Silverman menu). Click image to download a … Continue reading
These menus were used on the knights templar trip from “Detroit to San Francisco and return.” They don’t say exactly what day they were used, and since there is one breakfast, one lunch, and one dinner menu, they could all … Continue reading
We’ve previously seen this cover on a 1937 lunch menu I found on the New York Public Library web site. Since then, I’ve acquired one of my own, a lunch menu from 1938. Click any images to download a 800-KB … Continue reading
Someone collected these menus during a 1937 tour that went from Chicago to Los Angeles on the Santa Fe, Los Angeles to Portland on the Southern Pacific, Portland to Vancouver on the Great Northern, and Vancouver east on the Canadian … Continue reading
In September 1949, the masons held their national convention in San Francisco and Knights Templar groups from all over the country chartered trains to attend the meeting. One of these was in Detroit, and we’ve already seen some menus from … Continue reading
We’ve previously seen a lunch menu with this cover that was dated 1965. This one is undated and some of the prices are a little higher and some a little lower than the 1965 menu, so I can’t tell whether … Continue reading