May 4, 1901 · Norddeutscher Lloyd, Bremen · Breakfast (Frühstück)
Breakfast in early May aboard NDL express liners marked the spring-summer transition. The 1901 season saw NDL preparing to launch Kronprinz Wilhelm (June 1901), giving the company two record-class four-funnel express liners simultaneously.
The cover features an Art Nouveau header band with a saintly allegorical female figure (likely representing “Hospitality” or the German concept of “Gastlichkeit”) flanked by palm fronds and decorative ornament. The combination of religious-style central figure and tropical foliage is unusual and distinctive.
NDL’s 1901 menu series included Art Nouveau allegorical headers paired with full menu text — a hybrid format that gave passengers both an attractive cover and the full meal information without flipping the page. This was an economy-class layout used widely across the fleet.
Visual style: Art Nouveau header with allegorical female figure flanked by palm fronds; full menu listing below.
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.
