July 22, 1901 · S.S. Fürst Bismarck · Hamburg-Amerika Linie · Lunch
July 22, 1901 is a high-summer crossing. Lunch service on a HAPAG express liner in this period would have included light hors d’oeuvre, soup, a fish course, an entrée, cold meats or roasts, dessert, and coffee — substantial by modern standards but lighter than dinner.
The cover features the standard 1901 HAPAG Art Nouveau template — a female allegorical figure in classical drapery, a small steamship vignette, and stylised border ornament. The execution is precise commercial chromolithography of high quality.
This menu uses the same Art Nouveau template as the earlier Fürst Bismarck and Auguste Victoria menus from the 1901 season (see A06, A07). The template’s repetition across the HAPAG fleet was a deliberate brand-consistency decision — passengers recognised the company immediately regardless of which ship they were aboard.
Visual style: Art Nouveau allegorical cover with female figure and ship vignette (HAPAG 1901 template).
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.
