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Image: Yosemite Park and Curry Co.
Printed Matter and Ephemera • Yosemite menu cover
archive no. 6017
Ahwahnee Dining Room Menu Cover
c.1927
Yosemite Park and Curry Co.
Offset lithograph on cardstock
5 1/4 x 4 1/4 in. (13.3 x 10.8 cm)
Menu cover for the Ahwahnee dining room. The set of Widforss' paintings of Yosemite that were reproduced as a postcard set were also used for many years as covers for menus printed daily for Yosemite Park and Curry Company restaurants. Printed by H. S. Crocker Co. Inc. San Francisco.
The Ahwahnee Hotel, designed by architect Gilbert Stanley Underwood, opened July 16, 1927. Underwood also designed Zion Lodge, Bryce Canyon Lodge, and Grand Canyon North Rim Lodge.
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Record last updated October 9, 2020. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Petersen, Alan. "Archival and Ephemeral Material: Ahwahnee Dining Room Menu Cover, c.1927 (archive no. 6017)." In Gunnar Widforss Catalogue Raisonné Project. www.gunnarwidforss.org/archives/entry.php?id=6017 (accessed on April 28, 2024).