Transportation Library Menu Collection 1928-present

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Transportation Library Menu Collection 1928-present

http://findingaids.library.northwestern.edu/catalog/inu-ead-trans-001

381 historic airline, ocean liner, and railroad menus, dating from 1928 to the present.

381 menus from airlines, ocean liners, and railroads.

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Northwestern University Transportation Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 6348783

Northwestern University Transportation Library

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Trans world airlines

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Trans World Airlines, formerly Transcontinental & Western Air, was founded in 1930 by a merger of Pittsburgh Aviation Industries, Western Express, and T.A.T.- Maddox Airlines (founded in 1929 by Charles Lindbergh). Trans World Airlines began all-air coast to coast commercial service in 1930-1931 and was built into an aviation giant by Howard Hughes. TWA merged with American Airlines in 2001. From the description of Trans World Airlines records, 1929-1982 (bulk 1944-1970). (Univer...

United Airlines

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Air New Zealand

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East African Airways

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National Airlines (United States)

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Delta Air Lines

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Delta Airlines began in Macon, Georgia in 1924 as a crop dusting company called Huff Daland Dusters. The company moved to Monroe, Louisiana in 1925 and soon had the largest privately owned aircraft fleet in the world. In 1928 the company was renamed Delta Air Service. Passenger operations began in 1929, and in 1934, the company secured a contract to deliver mail on a southern route that stretched from Texas to South Carolina. In 1941, the company established its corporate headquarters in Atlanta...

Pan American World Airways (United States)

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Qantas Airlines

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Mr. Peter Devlin

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Continental Airlines

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Malaysian Airline System

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Garuda Indonesian Airways

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Northwest Orient Airlines (United States)

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Nihon Koku (Japan)

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Borisat Kanbin Thai (Thailand)

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Jeffrey Garrett

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Sabena Belgian World Airlines.

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Air Canada

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Cathay Pacific

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Olympiake Aeroporeia (Greece)

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British Overseas Airways

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Paul Burley

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Philippine Airlines

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Pan American-Grace Airways (Peru)

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Air France.

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Cunard Steamship Company (Great Britain)

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LAN Chile Airlines

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South African Airways

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Bremen (Germany)

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Swissair

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China Airlines

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Air India

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KLM (Netherlands)

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Hawaiian Airlines

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Thorsen, Kristine A.

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Union de Transports Aeriens (France)

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Foster, George M. (George McClelland), 1913-2006

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The Menu Collection of the Northwestern University Transportation Library currently includes more than 400 menus from 54 national and international airline carriers, cruise ships, and railroad companies, with coverage from 1929 to the present. U.S. airlines predominate, but European, Asian, African, Australasian, and South American companies are also represented, with particular strength from the 1960s to the late 1980s. This collection is multi-disciplinary in scope: it...

Alitalia (Italy)

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Mexicana (Mexico)

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Foster, George M. (George McClelland), 1913-2006

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w680596m (person)

The Menu Collection of the Northwestern University Transportation Library currently includes more than 400 menus from 54 national and international airline carriers, cruise ships, and railroad companies, with coverage from 1929 to the present. U.S. airlines predominate, but European, Asian, African, Australasian, and South American companies are also represented, with particular strength from the 1960s to the late 1980s. This collection is multi-disciplinary in scope: it...

Trenitalia (Italy)

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Malaysia Airlines

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Tim Leonard

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Air Mauritius

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Western Airlines

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Western Air Express flew its first flight in a Douglas M-2 airplane, April 1926. It was awarded the US Postal Service contract to fly the mail from Salt Lake City to Los Angeles. In 1928, the Guggenheim Foundation chose Western to set up a model airway between Los Angeles and San Francisco. They purchased 3, Fokker F-10 Trimoters with comfortable wicker chairs and provided meal service to passengers. Western developed the first air-to-ground radio, in cooperation with Thorpe Hiscock of Boeing, i...

VARIG (Brazil)

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British airways

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Singapore Airlines

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Carrier, Ronald M.

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Deutsche Lufthansa

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American Airlines

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CP Air (Canada)

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