M. Leone Bracker preferred to draw real people, not models. This suggests somewhere on the Canadian prairie lived a farm family who looked like the people on the cover of this menu. Canadian Pacific must have offered Bracker a pass … Continue reading
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Just as yesterday’s Angus Shops menu represented Canadian Pacific’s railroad operations, the Empress of Japan menu represented its steamships, so this menu, with Banff Springs Hotel on the cover, represents its hotel operations. Thanks to Canadian Pacific, “from one end … Continue reading
Several years ago, I posted menus from the Chung collection that featured steamships on the cover. One showed the Empress of Japan along with some sights people might see in Asia, possibly on a Canadian Pacific world cruise. On my … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
In the 1950s, Fred Harvey operated close to 20 restaurants in its hotels, train stations, and other buildings ranging from Cleveland to Los Angeles. This is one of a series of nine menus “featuring some of the more prominent Fred … Continue reading
The back of this menu reproduces James Whitcomb Riley‘s poem, When the Frost Is on the Punkin, in full. Riley (1849-1916), of course, was the Hoosier poet who wrote in a central Indiana dialect. In 1941, the New York Central … Continue reading
For some reason, several railroads — including Burlington, Rio Grande, and of course NP — issued menus in the late 1930s and 1940s that required someone to glue photos on the covers. The glued-on photo on this menu shows Grand … Continue reading
This is part of a series of at least a dozen menus that feature a sepia-tone photograph glued on to the front cover. Most of the photos show Mount Rainier, dude ranches, or backcountry camps; so far, I haven’t found … Continue reading
This 1908 menu has nothing about Yellowstone on the front cover, but the back cover has one photo each of Mammoth hot springs, Old Faithful Inn, and — for some reason — two photos of the Lake Hotel. Although designed … Continue reading
Here’s a lunch menu that was used on the 1923 Chairman’s Special Western Trip. This menu features a painting of wildflowers by Walter Loos. Another of his paintings was used on a 1924 menu previously featured here. A third Loos … Continue reading