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Title: American Newsmakers
Date: 1981-11-24, 1981-11-26
Description: "On Thursday, Nov. 26, Americans will be celebrating the Thanksgiving holiday. These people, below, are some of the newsmakers for the year that will be among those counting their blessings on the day Americans set aside for giving thanks. Top row, from left: President Ronald Reagan, Suzanne Somers, Gerry Faust and Dave Woodward. Bottom from left: Mary Gohlke, Dan Rather, Fernando Valenzuela and Moorhead Kennedy."

Title: Lafayette Park Thanksgiving Dinner
Date: 1982-11-25, 1982-11-26
Description: "Dinner in the Park - Part of a crowd of 150 people file through a Thanksgiving dinner line in Lafayette Park across the street from the White House in Washington Thursday. The meal was organized by the Community for Creative Non-Violence, whose leader Mitch Snyder said that 500 to 1,000 meals would be served before the day ended."

Title: First Thanksgiving in America
Date: 1977-11-24
Description: "Woonsocket, Rhode Island, Nov. 24 - First Thanksgiving in a New Land - Four-year-old Sengthavy Sengsourya gets first hand examination of his first Thanksgiving turkey Wednesday night. His parents, Laotian refugees who fled to the U.S. from Thailand last December, were preparing for their first Thanksgiving Day dinner in their new homeland."

Title: Military Thanksgiving Dinner
Date: 1946-11-28
Description: Thanksgiving dinner for military personnel. From left, are Sergeant Kenneth Starbody, Sergeant Donald D. Clark and wife, Private First Class Carl Womack and wife, Sergeant R. Schoolcraft, wife, and 4 month old son.

Title: Family Painting a House
Date: 1943-10-31, 1943-11-21
Description: "In the second Thanksgiving of World War II many Americans are thankful for homes of their own, be they ever so humble, in a time when families are being uprooted and homes destroyed by the ravages of War. Here, in a typical scene, the whole family joins in the painting of the house."

Title: "Gage and Weigh"
Description: "St. Louis, MO.-- completed machine gun and rifle cartridges get their semi-final graduation test on a miniature merry-go-round called a 'gage and weigh' machine, shown here. Each of the 'spokes' of this carousel for cartridges is a scale, delicately balanced with a weight sufficient to keep it horizontal if the cartridge is of standard weight. Otherwise, it is kicked off. If the cartridge finishes its ride, it gets the 'brass ring' and is ready for graduation--actual 'acceptance firing' in the Proof House of the Ordnance Plant."

Title: Allied Military Leaders
Date: 1967-03-16
Description: "With the Yanks in France in World War I, Americans learned the names - and nicknames - of Allied military leaders, along with their own. Here, somewhere in France, are four of the top men: Left to right, Gen. Joseph Joffre - Papa Joffre - idol of the French poilu; Gen. Ferdinand Foch, Allied commander-in-chief; unidentified officer (in back;) Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig, the British Tommies' hero, and Gen. John J. - Black Jack - Pershing, commander of the AEF, the American Expeditionary Force."

Title: American Expeditionary Forces in Italy
Date: 1922
Description: "A detachment of troops from the expeditionary forces in Germany, headed by Gen. Henry Allen, arriving in the "Eternal City" to bestow the Congressional Medal of Honor upon the tomb of the unknown Italian soldier." This photo shows the soldiers marching down the street with onlookers lining both sidewalks.

Title: 23rd Infantry Marching
Date: unknown
Description: Photograph of the soldiers of the 23rd Infantry marching through Brooklyn by the Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Arch. Engraved on the arch is the statement, "To the Defenders of the Union 1861-1865". The solders are marching underneath the arch in the photograph while civilians walk around the outside of the arch and on sidewalks in the left middle-ground.

Title: British Military Leadership
Date: 1964-07-22
Description: discuss his decisions lost men and time./Right: David Lloyd George, Welsh lawyer who pulled things together after he became prime minister, brought civilian experts into the cabinet but could not win full control over the generals as he led the country toward victory in 1918."

Title: Child Troops Marching
Date: 1937-11-7
Description: Photograph of a large amount of children with rifles on their shoulders marching in line in uniform as groups of adults watch from the roadside.

Title: President Woodrow Wilson at the Paris Peace Conference
Date: 1918, 1968-11-11
Description: "Beginning of Peace/President Woodrow Wilson himself traveled to Europe to attend the Paris peace conference at the end of World War I. Here, he addresses and reviews troops of the American Expeditionary Force at Chaumont, in France, on Christmas Day 1918." Next to President Wilson is General John J. Pershing.

Title: President Woodrow Wilson Addressing Congress
Date: 1917, 1964-08-12
Description: "Breaking Point/Isolationist at the start, the United States moved step by step to participation in World War I. President Woodrow Wilson, reluctant to abandon neutrality, here addresses Congress in Washington to advise the legislators of the break in diplomatic relations with Germany, in February, 1917. The break came after the Germans resumed unrestricted submarine warfare."

Title: Searchlights Trained on Planes
Date: 1925-02-07
Description: "U.S. Flyers Winners in Night Battle at Fortress Monroe./Airmen are claiming a decisive victory in the "Battle in the Air" arranged by Secretary of War Weeks at Fortress Monroe, Va. day and night of March 6th. Three Martin bombers dodged range finders, evaded searchlights and successfully attacked fortress Monroe. More than 500 persons witnessed the demonstration. In the night tests, the flyers won, the shafts of light groping vainly for the motors that the listening devices revealed./This photo shows searchlights at Fortress Monroe being trained on planes."

Title: Smoke-Filled Battlefield
Date: 1937-11-7
Description: Photograph of a battlefield filled with smoke as people run wildly around it. There are a group of people in the foreground, and a house in the middle-ground with smoke around it. There is a tree-line at the background of the photo.

Title: Soldier and Family
Date: unknown
Description: Photograph of a soldier carrying luggage next to a large ship. A woman carrying a baby is standing next to him, and behind the family is a group of people stood at the exit of the boat.

Title: American Troops Leaving Antwerp
Date: 1923-02-03
Description: "First and Exclusive Photos of Last of American Troops Leaving Rhine!/This first and exclusive photo the first to arrive from abroad shows the U.S. Flag passing the French Flag and the Guard of Honor as last of American troops prepare to embark for States at Antwerp."

Title: American Troops Recalled
Date: unknown
Description: "American troops leave the Rhine. Uncle Sam's Troops parting on S.S. St. Mihiel after being recalled by President Harding./Photo shows American Troops from the American Army of the Rhine on board the U.S. Transport St. Mihiel at Antwerp before sailing for home."

Title: Grand Army of the Republic Veterans
Date: 1936-06-01
Description: "G.A.R. Veterans Honor Comrades - Nine of the 23 G. A. R. veterans who marched in the Memorial Day parade on Riverside Drive shown at the Soldiers' and Sailors Monument in New York during exercises honor the nation's war dead. Left to right: George C. Eldridge, 92; George W. Collier, 94; Robert S. Heilferty, 88; Edward Fleming; Timothy J. Creeden, 96, the oldest veteran in line of march; Albert Morgan, 92; James O'Conner, 90; Christopher A. Farrell, 90, and Josiah C. Read, 90, grand marshal of the G. A. R."

Title: Soldiers Marching in Line
Date: 1937-11-7
Description: Photograph of several rows of soldiers marching with their rifles facing ahead of them. The soldiers are dressed in uniform and are wearing metal helmets. They're walking perfectly in time across the brick road.

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