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Title: Church Cornucopia Display
Date: 1957-11-27
Description: "Jefferson, Iowa, Nov. 27 - Blessings of Iowa Soil - As a reminder of Iowa's blessings for abundant crops, this display of grains and garden produce adorns the altar of First Methodist Church here. Des Moines Register & Tribune photographer Jervas Baldwin caught the black-and-white beauty of this Thanksgiving display for the third year from crops he has grown."

Title: Doodlebug Thanksgiving Day Float
Date: 1977-11-24
Description: "Preparation for a Parade - Workmen adjust eye of a "Doodlebug", one of 29 floats in the annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade that will get underway Thursday in New York City. The floats were built at the parade warehouse in Hoboken, N.J. under the supervision of Manfred Bass, float designer."

Title: Voting Booth
Date: 1943-10-31, 1943-11-21
Description: "Thanksgiving Harvest, 1943/Despite all Axis Propaganda to the contrary, the voting booth method, whatever its defects, is still the superior way of running your government. This woman is exercising one of her most precious rights of citizenship."

Title: Underdog in the Thanksgiving Day Parade
Date: 1981-11-26
Description: "New York, Nov. 26 - Look, Up in the Air! - "Underdog," one of the favorites of the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, descends toward the crowd as it approaches Herald Square during the 55th annual parade in Manhattan Thursday."

Title: Turkey Float
Date: 1974-11-29
Description: "New York, Nov. 29 - A Big Bird Float - Crowds pack the sidewalk Thursday along New York's Times Square as a float holding a thirty-foot-tall turkey goes by in the Thanksgiving parade. The traditional bird was one of the 41 floats scheduled to participate."

Title: Thankful for Industrial Achievement
Date: 1943-10-31, 1943-11-21
Description: "Thanksgiving Harvest, 1943/Americans are thankful for the industrial and scientific achievements of this country, which, great as they are, hold even greater promise for the future. Unfettered and properly encouraged to develop the Native American genius of invention can achieve wonders in the creation of production and transportation facilities. And with the realization of the hope of a post

Title: Sarah Josepha Buell Hale Print
Date: 1947-11-23
Description: "Mrs. Sarah Josepha Buell Hale has her place in history as the "Mother of Thanksgiving Day." Novelist and editor of several women's magazines she campaigned for more than 30 years urging the adoption of her native New England festival as a national public holiday. President Lincoln agreed, proclaimed the first official Thanksgiving Day in 1864. Mrs. Hale died in Philadelphia in 1879."

Title: Pilgrims Departing from England
Date: 1947-11-23
Description: "Departure from Delftshaven, England, July, 1620. The Pilgrims were mostly separatists from the Mother Church of England and they embarked for the new world primarily to escape religious persecution. They had established independent churches that have since banded into the Congregational Christian Church. Abused in England, some fled to Holland; finally they succeeded in raising enough funds from

Title: War Brides of U.S. Sailors
Date: unknown, unknown
Description: This photo shows War Brides of U. S. Sailors and babies who arrived from Europe on the bridal ship Plattsburg. The bridal ship Plattsburg brings 69 wives and twenty children. 25 of the brides were Irish, the rest were English and Scotch. This cargo of Brides represents part of the marital activities of U. S. boys on destroyers and U-Boats, chasers.

Title: Farmerettes in World War I
Date: 1967-03-16
Description: "Ladies Into Farmarettes/They were called ladies and wore long skirts or - for some activities - bloomers, but the female of the species kept the home fires burning in World War I. They marched in parades, boosted sales of Liberty Bonds, practiced Home Defense tactics, took up gardening in backyards and on golf courses. These farmerettes were students and faculty members of Western College at Oxford, Ohio."

Title: Dryden Trophy
Date: unknown
Description: "U.S. Infantry, Holder of the Dryden, Wingate and Sadler Trophies, to Defend Honors in Rifle Matches./The U.S, Infantry, now the present champions and holders of the Dryden, Wingate and Sadler Trophies, will defend their prizes at the New Jersey State Rifle Association meet at Camp Perry, Ohio. The Dryden trophy was presented by the late John F. Dryden, U.S. Senator of New Jersey. The Wingate trophy was presented by General Wingate for annual competition on off-shoulder shooting. The Sadler trophy was presented by General Wilbor F. Sadler, Jr. It is open to teams of eight from the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, National guard, Civilian Teams, and School teams./Photo shows L.R. the Wingate, Dryden, and Sadler trophies which the U.S. Infantry team will defend in coming matches."

Title: Photograph of Landing of the Pilgrims Painting
Date: 1947-11-23
Description: "Thanksgiving Day/Landing of the Pilgrims, Dec. 21, 1620. This painting depicts the hardy group of pioneers atop historic Plymouth Rock, their heads bowed to God in thanks for their safe voyage. Originally, the Pilgrims intended to settle in Virginia, but the Mayflower was blown from its course and instead the first permanent colony in New England was established./(One of a Series)."

Title: Photograph of Mayflower Painting
Date: 1947-11-23
Description: "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

Title: Soldiers Reading Letters From Home
Date: 1943-10-31, 1943-11-21
Description: "Americans, sitting down to Thanksgiving dinner in the safety of their homes, will give thanks to their sons and brothers who are fighting on far-away fronts to preserve the good things of democracy. Boys like these American soldiers somewhere in Australia, reading precious letters from home."

Title: Plymouth Statue
Date: 1947-11-23
Description: "This 180-foot monument, largest granite statue in the world, stands in Plymouth, Mass. to commemorate the achievements of the Pilgrims who arrived there on the Mayflower in 1620. The central figure, carrying a Bible and resting one foot on a replica of the Plymouth Rock, represents Faith. The seated figures symbolize Education (left), Freedom, and Morality. Another on the opposite side is Law

Title: Painting of the First Thanksgiving
Date: 1962-11-21
Description: "Painting of the first Thanksgiving by Sydney E. King, Virginia artist, depicts the scene in December of 1619, when a group of 39 colonists observed a day of Thanksgiving on the banks of the James River at Berkeley Plantation in Virginia."

Title: Thanksgiving Pie Preparation
Date: 1982-11-23, 1982-11-24
Description: "Peru, Ind., Nov. 23 - Ready for Thanksgiving - Beverly Enyeart prepares pies for the Thanksgiving Day dinner she and her husband and eight children are preparing for anyone who wants to come. The Enyearts say preparing for the meal is a labor of love."

Title: Beginning of World War I
Date: 1914-06-28, 1944-07-14
Description: "The Spark That Touched Off World War I/The arrest of the Bosnian student, Princip, pictured here, followed the assassination of the Archduke Francis Ferdinand of Austria at Sarajevo on June 28, 1914. The assassination was recognized by the Central Powers to be an adequate casus belli and it was followed by the presentation to Serbia of an ultimatum from Austria on July 23. Five days later

Title: Assemblage of the Russian Army
Date: 1964-07-29
Description: "Road to Revolution/Russia entered World War I as it started 50 years ago with an army which was massive but badly armed. She suffered quick body blows from Germany and went on to one disaster after another. She lost 1.650,000 men killed, 3,850,000 wounded and 2,410,000 prisoners before the 1917 revolution which ousted the tsar and ended her part in the war. Here reservists, accompanied by

Title: Body of the Unknown Soldier
Date: 1921
Description: "Body of the "Unknown Soldier" leaves Chalons France for America./Photo shows Taking the flag draped casket containing America's uknown hero from Hotel de Ville for shipment to America."

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