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While we can’t offer a full course meal like this one served by United in the 1950s, many people have been cooking up a storm while sheltering in place. What’s your quarantine menu looking like? Image: United Air Lines menu, c. 1950. Gift of Thomas G. Dragges. 2014.095.217
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