With their ornate borders surrounding a field providing room for a glue-on photo above and the name of the party below, these menus were clearly designed to be used for tours or special events. The ragged edge and string binding … Continue reading
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The first menu today has a Walter Loos painting that we’ve previously seen inside the 1927 edition of Great Northern’s Call of the Mountains. GN commissioned Loos to make a number of these wildflower paintings; most of the originals were … Continue reading
The first Great Northern menu today has a cover that seems to have been custom-designed for one tour, in this case of a trade tour for Spokane merchants. The image on the cover shows an industrialized Spokane Falls; I recently … Continue reading
Great Northern kept its media campaign going when the 1924 Oriental Limited reached its first anniversary. This elaborate menu cover encloses a standard two-page menu contained within six pages of text and photos advertising the train. Click image to download … Continue reading
The Great Northern archive at the Minnesota History Center has a huge number of different menus from the mid-1920s, the period I searched through to find information about the historical expeditions of 1925 and 1926. Most of the menus in … Continue reading
This childrens’ menu for the new Oriental Limited is 12 page long and includes a separate menu for every day of the week. The wood cut on the cover depicting the William Crooks is compared with the “grown up” P2 … Continue reading
These three menus are all undated, but I suspect this cover was originally used in the early 1920s. One of the menus advertises that Great Northern is the “route of the Oriental Limited, and since it doesn’t apply the word … Continue reading
Here is the seventh and, as far as I can tell, last of the Union Pacific black & white menus. As previously noted, all of the other menus in this series featured national parks except one that had Boulder Dam. … Continue reading
Here are two more menus used by American Legionnaires going home from the 1938 convention in Los Angeles. We’ve seen both of these covers before, but these come with a couple of extras. Click image to download a 2.3-MB PDF … Continue reading
Here is the sixth in Union Pacific’s series of black & white photograph menus, the first five being Bryce, Zion, Rocky Mountain, and Rainier national parks plus Boulder Dam. This particular menu was used for a group of American Legionnaires … Continue reading