1900s Vintage Menu Prints

Edwardian luxury — transatlantic dining at its absolute peak

The Edwardian decade saw printed menus reach their highest artistry. Cunard’s Lucania and Lusitania, Hamburg-Amerika’s Deutschland, the new Plaza Hotel and Hotel Astor in New York, and the Pan-American Exposition (1901) and Louisiana Purchase Exposition (1904) all produced menus that today survive as masterpieces of pre-WWI commercial design.

This is by far the largest decade in our archive — the absolute peak of vintage menu design, before the disruption of the First World War.

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