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House Restaurant Menu/tiles/collection/4/40454.xml
House Restaurant Menu/tiles/collection/4/40455.xml
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Date

1948-04-17

Dimensions

9 3/4 × 6 1/4 in. (24.8 × 15.9 cm)

Accession Number

2006.068.000

Credit Line

Collection of the U.S. House of Representatives

Object Details

In the middle of the 20th century, the House Restaurant used a cover design for its menus that showed the Capitol’s East Front beneath towering abstract clouds on the front and a simple fluttering American flag on the back. Inside, the offerings varied considerably, reflecting seasonal menu changes. This edition from April 17, 1948, listed several bivalve options—cherrystones, littlenecks, blue points, and lynnhavens—as well as the possibly delicious homemade “cocoanut custard pie.”

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