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Menu cards, especially those from the more important meals, were often kept by passengers as souvenirs of their voyage. In the early days the Atlantic Transport Line used simple cards with rounded corners. These were pre-printed with the company flag and the name of the steamer, and cards of a smaller size were used for luncheon menus. In the earlier days of the service, when passenger numbers were low, the menu cards were often hand written, but as the business grew a printer was added to the crew and printed menu cards became the norm. In the early 1900s menu cards became more elaborate, consisting of a folded card with an image on the front and perhaps an abstract of the ship's log inside with the menu itself. In later years one page of the menu card for a Dinner au Revoir might be left deliberately blank for the autographs of fellow passengers. In the 1920s the Atlantic Transport Line issued menu cards with a series of views of picturesque London for first class passengers to collect.
A luncheon menu dated August 2, 1908 and a dinner menu on larger card stock
from August 10, 1902, both from the Minnehaha (Kinghorn)
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A Thanksgiving Day dinner menu card with abstract of log from the Minnetonka,
November 30, 1911 (Kinghorn)
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Dinner menu for August 20, 1929 (Minnewaska (IV) (Ian Newson), Breakfast menu
for Wednesday, May 14, 1930 (Kinghorn),
Luncheon menu for Wednesday, May 14, 1930 (Kinghorn), Luncheon, Minnewaska (IV)
August 19, 1929 (Ian Newson),
A breakfast menu, MInnewaska (IV) from December 13, 1930 (Kinghorn)
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Tourist Third Class passengers enjoyed simpler menu cards and much plainer fare.
Breakfast, lunch and dinner menus
from the Minnekahda (II) dated respectively September 7, 1930, August 12, 1926
and September 7, 1930. (all Kinghorn)
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