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.

Front cover, shipboard wine and dinner menu — 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. — 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

Brochure listing an itineraries for a Hawaiian cruise, all inclusive tours of South Pacific, and independent tours of New Zealand and Australia. (artwork detail). — 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. — 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

Brochures, dinner menus and other ephemera for your fantasy cruise to anywhere. 1930’s and 1940’s. American. Archives of the Huntington Library, San Marino, California.

Advertisement for new service from the Pacific Northwest to Hawaii on the Matson Line's S. S. Wilhelmina. — Advertisement for new service from the Pacific Northwest to Hawaii on the Matson Line’s S. S. Wilhelmina. 1929. Image © Huntington Library, San Marino. Fair use license. via https://hdl.huntington.org/digital/collection/p9539coll1/id/20736/rec/12

Front cover, 1937 room plan brochure for the S. S. Monterey and S. S. Mariposa. — Room plan brochure for the Matson Navigation Company’s ships S. S. Monterey and S. S. Mariposa. 1937. Image © Huntington Library, San Marino. Fair use license. via https://hdl.huntington.org/digital/collection/p9539coll1/id/19199/rec/17

Novelty list of cabin class passengers and officers sailing from Honolulu to Los Angeles onboard the Matson Company’s S. S. Lurline, July 14, 1948. Image © Huntington Library, San Marino. Fair use license. via https://hdl.huntington.org/digital/collection/p9539coll1/id/19206/rec/29

"Diner D'Adieu." Shipboard dinner menu. — Diner D’Adieu. Shipboard dinner menu for the “Voyage 117 en route: Honolulu to Los Angeles Thursday, June 6, 1932.”1932. Times-Mirror Printing & Binding House, Los Angeles, printer. Image © Huntington Library, San Marino. Fair use license. via https://hdl.huntington.org/digital/collection/p9539coll1/id/13438/rec/4

Shipboard wine and dinner menu for Thursday East, March 10, 1939. — Shipboard wine and dinner menu for Thursday East, March 10, 1939 on a Matson Navigation Company cruise ship. Image © Huntington Library, San Marino. Fair use license. via https://hdl.huntington.org/digital/collection/p9539coll1/id/19971/rec/21

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