Letterpress Replica of the Last Titanic Lunch Menu

Description

A small menu with rounded corners, gilded edges, gilded details, and a reg flag featuring the logo of the "White Star Line". The menu is dated 14 April 1912 and lists the lunch items served on the day that the Titanic sank. The body text is in a Grot typeface with the last line in a serif italic. The original menus were printed on the Titanic by 53-year-old Abraham Mansoor Mishellany, and his assistant, 27-year-old Ernest Theodore Corbin, likely on a small platen press. This replica was printed using the same techniques that Mishellany and Corbin would have used and gives a sense of how the Titanic's menus might have looked when they were hot off the press. Sadly, both Mishellany and Corbin were lost in the sinking of the Titanic.

Object Name(s): prints (general, unnumbered)

Object Category: ARCHIVAL MATERIALS

Production date: 2020s

Linear Dimensions Depth: 0.1

Materials: paper
Material Part: body

Provenance Summary: Donated by Cliff Adams, who was also one of the creators