Photograph of Mayflower Painting

St. Louis Globe-Democrat
Religious News Service Photo

1947-11-23

picture

Thanksgiving Day

Saint Louis (Mo.)

1940-1949

"Thanksgiving Day/Aboard the Mayflower. The ship is supposed to have carried 102 voyagers on its historic trip. Now free to worship as thier own conscience dictated a group of Pilgrims signed the famous Mayflower Compact, a short set of laws which established certain concepts of religious freedom. The document later became a basis for the democratic government in the colonies. This painting, by Robert W. Weir, hangs in the Capitol in Washington, D.C./(One of Series)."

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Thanksgiving Day 1947009

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