Celebrations: Thanksgiving Day

I hope you're having a great day!

[Art and Picture Collection, The New York Public Library. "Thanksgiving greetings." The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1909. http://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47e3-52da-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99]

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Celebrations: Thanksgiving Day

[Art and Picture Collection, The New York Public Library. "Best wishes for a good Thanksgiving." The New York Public Library Digital Collections. http://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47e3-6467-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99]

The New York Public Library's digital collections are a great resource. This year I deliberately chose a postcard (mailed in 1908) which doesn't feature a turkey but there are plenty available, including this one which seems to show a young girl fleeing from the turkey; another where several children chase after a running bird; and one with a smiling boy grasps the turkey's neck while they sit near an axe. Most commonly though, the image is of  a fully fledged tom in all his glory although one or two depict happy turkey families before the fatal day.




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Celebrations: Thanksgiving Turkey Revisited

The Library of Congress has lots of pictures. These date from the first two decades of the twentieth century.

[The Thanksgiving turkey / Alfcamp, Elizabeth, N.J. (c1900), Alfred S. Campbell.

Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3c00216]

[Buying Thanksgiving turkey (between ca. 1910 and ca. 1915. Bain News Service, publisher.

Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print]

[Thanksgiving turkey (between ca. 1910 and ca. 1915). Bain News Service, publisher.

Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print]

[Thanksgiving - taking home turkies from raffle (1912), Bain News Service.

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3b18267]

[Thanksgiving, 1919, National Photo Company.

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/npcc.00888 ]

[Thanksgiving, 1919, National Photo Company.

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/npcc.00890]

Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours.


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