Paragon Park 1913 - ABA Sea Book Stork and Buffalo

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Paragon Park 1913 - ABA Sea Book Stork and BuffaloThis fanciful menu cover, dated 1913, was created for the American Bankers Association. It shows an impressively dressed lobster entertaining a group of mermaids. He towers over them with his giant claws but theres a light hearted aspect to it too, as the lobster is balancing a water melon like a juggler. With beautifully drawn clouds and a sailing ship in the distance, its certainly a striking image and typical of the era when dark humor was all the