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Menus collected on board the EMPRESS OF BRITAIN
Image Not Available for Menus collected on board the EMPRESS OF BRITAIN

Menus collected on board the EMPRESS OF BRITAIN

Date1931
Object numberANMS0491
NameArchive series
MediumPaper
ClassificationsEphemera
Credit LineANMM Collection Gift from Dennis McLoughry
DescriptionThis archive series consists of menus collected by Miss Elsie Jackson during her return voyage from London to Sydney via America and Canada on EMPRESS OF BRITAIN in 1931. It includes six breakfast, four lunch and four dinner menus from EMPRESS OF BRITAIN and one lunch menu from the Banff Springs Hotel in Alberta, Canada.HistoryMrs Elsie Ashdown (nee Jackson) (1888-1975) undertook two cruises from Sydney to London over the course of 25 years. During her first voyage from Sydney to London in 1931, Elsie travelled third class on the Orient liner ORONTES via Cairo and the Suez Canal. After a week-long English tour, Elsie took an overland trip through Europe, followed by a second cruise on ORONTES to Norway and the northern capitals. Elsie returned to Sydney via Canada and the Americas. In 1956, travelling under her married name, Elsie undertook a second voyage on the Orient line to London, South Africa, South America and around the coast of Australia to Fremantle, Adelaide, Melbourne, Tasmania and back to Sydney.