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House Restaurant Menu

House Restaurant Menu/tiles/collection/1/12373.xml
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Date

1939-06-13

Publisher

Government Printing Office

Dimensions

10 × 6 1/4 in. (25.4 × 15.9 cm)

Accession Number

2009.034.000

Credit Line

Collection of the U.S. House of Representatives

Object Details

From bean soup to iced watermelon, 15 cents could buy a wide variety of dishes on this 1939 House Restaurant menu. The most expensive lunch on the menu was the “75c plate,” whereas the cheapest was a cake of yeast—just 5 cents!

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