This engraving, like the first Forty-Niner menu presented here a few days ago, is by AndrĂ© Castaigne. Like the previous one, it is dated 1891 and was probably used in Century magazine. Click image to download a 832-KB PDF of … Continue reading
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The engraving on today’s cover is by Hugo Nahl, who was born in Germany in 1833 and, along with his brother Charles, were considered California’s first major artists. Their parents must have been the first hippies: Charles was the son … Continue reading
Today’s menu features an engraving by Harry Davidson (1858-1924), an artist who was well-known enough to rate an obituary in the New York Times. Born in Philadelphia, he lived most of his live in New York where he was also … Continue reading
As previously noted here, the Forty-Niner was a heavyweight train run to handle first-class passengers during the 1939 and 1940 Golden Gate Exposition. This is one of a series of menus, all of which have notable engravings on the covers, … Continue reading
Unlike most menus in this series with black-and-white photos on the covers, this one’s cover photo didn’t wrap around to the back. Instead, the front cover shows a scene outside of Mexico City while the back cover photo shows a … Continue reading
With a 1935 date, this is the oldest menu I’ve found in this series of Southern Pacific black-and-white photo menus (the newest I have are from 1939). Every menu I’ve found in this series was used for a special tour … Continue reading
Here are two menus, from 1951 and 1954, with the same front cover as one we’ve seen before on a 1956 menu. But the back of the 1951 menu has a photograph of the east- and westbound California Zephyrs meeting … Continue reading
Located south of Aspen, the Maroon Bells are sometimes called the most photographed scene in Colorado. They are so popular that the Forest Service has restricted access and imposed a number of fees to get to them. We’ve previously seen … Continue reading
The photograph of the California Zephyr in Glenwood Canyon is titled “Dream Come True.” The dream was not the California Zephyr itself but the dome cars it carried, as legend had it that such domes were first conceived by General … Continue reading
Yesterday we saw a Rio Grande menu with Colorado’s capitol building, and previously we saw one with Utah’s capitol. It made sense to have one menu with each capitol, but now I have menu with a different photo of Utah’s … Continue reading