American Line Vintage Menus

The first American-flagged transatlantic line — Philadelphia & New York to Liverpool, 1898–1910

The American Line was the first major American-flagged transatlantic shipping company, operating from Philadelphia and New York to Liverpool and Southampton from the 1870s onward. Its menus carry distinctive American typography and red-white-blue flag motifs — a rare American competitor to the dominant British and German transatlantic lines of the era.