Cruise the seven seas or just take a day trip to Catalina Island in your mind. Brochures, dinner menus and other cruise ephemera from the 1930s and 1940s. American. Archives of the Huntington Library, San Marino, California.
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Front cover, shipboard wine and dinner menu from a Wednesday, February 1, 1939 Monterey sailing. 1939. Matson Navigation Company. Printed in San Francisco. Image © Huntington Digital Library. Fair use license. via https://hdl.huntington.org/digital/collection/p9539coll1/id/19975/rec/33
Front cover of the menu for the shareholder’s lunch held aboard the S.S. Lurline on Tuesday, March 27, 1956. 1956. Matson Navigation Company. Image © Huntington Digital Library. Fair use license. via https://hdl.huntington.org/digital/collection/p9539coll1/id/18824/rec/36
Front cover of a brochure listing an itinerary for a Hawaiian cruise, all-inclusive tours of South Pacific, and independent tours of New Zealand and Australia, Number 304. (artwork detail). Issued March 15, 1940. Matson Navigation Company. Image © Huntington Digital Library. Fair use license. via https://hdl.huntington.org/digital/collection/p9539coll1/id/15371/rec/44
Tea menu and concert program on board the SS Mariposa for Saturday, September 4, 1937. 1937. Matson Navigation Company. Image © Huntington Digital Library. Fair use license. via https://hdl.huntington.org/digital/collection/p9539coll1/id/19213/rec/51