Pacific Mail Steamship Co. Vintage Menu Prints

America’s Pacific transoceanic line — San Francisco departures 1886–1910

Founded in 1848, the Pacific Mail Steamship Company was the dominant American carrier across the Pacific. Routes from San Francisco to Yokohama, Hong Kong and Manila produced menus that often blended Western dining conventions with Asian destination motifs. An under-collected but visually distinctive corner of transoceanic menu design.

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