Summary: | One of a set of menus issued for a cruise up the Inside Passage from Seattle to Alaska by the Alaska Steamship Company, Room 979, Pier Two, Seattle. Menu cover image is etching of "the lone prospector": a man, his pack dog, and his pack and his gold pan. There is a secondary image of a man panning for gold on lower right of etching. Menu is part of a series of dry point etchings with Alaska themes by Eustace Paul Ziegler. Inside cover is line drawing of cruise ship and captain, with promotional blurb about the Alaska Line. The date is printed on the third page of the menu. PH Coll 617 Series VII. Excursion Travel. Depression Era (1929-1939) Illustrated Menus, Travel (Ship, Train, etc).
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