March 15, 1899 · S.S. Königin Luise · Norddeutscher Lloyd, Bremen · Daily Lunch
The repetition of the daily lunch template across each day’s printing was a HAPAG/NDL convention: a standard cover was overprinted with the date and dishes for each meal. This kept printing costs down while still providing passengers with daily individual menu cards.
The cover layout is nearly identical to A39 — same ship medallion, same script — with only the printed date and dishes changed. This is characteristic of NDL’s economical menu production for ordinary daily service, in contrast to the elaborate one-off covers used for special occasions.
The five-day interval between A39 and this menu (March 10 and March 15, 1899) places both within a single transatlantic crossing of the Königin Luise. The ship would have departed Bremen, called at Southampton, then sailed for New York; the late-winter crossings would have been rough.
Visual style: NDL standard ship-medallion cover, slight variant from A39.
What you receive
- Three print sizes: 8×10, 11×14, 16×20 inches (300 DPI, ready for any home printer or framing shop).
- Two versions of each size: a pure print (no added text) and a museum print (with a small caption: restaurant or ship, year, and source).
- A 1–2 page PDF with the menu’s historical context.
- One ZIP file, instantly downloadable after checkout.
About the source
This menu is preserved in the Buttolph Collection of Menus at The New York Public Library and is in the public domain in the United States. The Menu Press has curated, digitally restored, and reformatted the work for modern printing.
