SS Assyria Vintage Menu Collection

 

Vintage menus for the SS Assyria in the GG Archives collection represent the souvenir breakfast, luncheon, dinner, daily, private party, special occasion, and specialty menus provided to the passengers during their voyage. Many of these souvenir menus have disappeared over the years.

 

Front Cover, Dinner Menu Card, PLClass Class on the TSS Assyria of the Anchor Line, 23 October 1921.

1921-10-23 TSS Assyria Dinner Menu Card

Vintage Dinner Menu Card from 23 October 1921 on board the TSS Assyria of the Anchor Line featured Boiled Salmon - Cardinal Sauce, Chicken à la Marengo - Forced Portuguese Onions, and Plum Pudding - Brandy Sauce for dessert.

 

Our collection contains a sampling of menus initially produced and printed by the steamship lines. They are often used to illustrate family history books for immigrants from this time.

 

Repository Information

The Gjenvick-Gjønvik Archives (GG Archives) is cataloged with the Library of Congress under MARC Org Code: WiMfGGA and ISIL: US-wimfgga.

Current location:
N91W16562 Pershing Ave, #1
Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin 53051-2170, USA

Note: Historic addresses listed in earlier MARC records include Marietta, GA and Woodstock, GA. These appear in authority files but are no longer active.

 

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