## Harvest Home

# 

# **George Washington to Robert G. Harper, July 10, 1797**

http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=mgw2&fileName=gwpage020.db&recNum=188

*Being on the point of celebrating Harvest home, I must be allowed, as a
Farmer, to make every other matter yield to the accomplishment thereof;
that being over, the Pamphlet, I am persuaded, will be read with
edification and pleasure by Dear Sir Your etc.*

**Harvest-Home. (Poem) Harper\'s new monthly magazine. / Volume 77,
Issue 460, September 1888**

http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/eaa,aap,aaeo,rbaapcbib,aasm,ftvbib,aaodyssey,hh,gottscho,mharendt,bbpix,bbcards,magbell,lbcoll,rbpebib,calbkbib,tccc,lhbcbbib,cwband,cwnyhs,gmd,cwar,cola,consrvbib,bdsbib,coolbib,coplandbib,curt,dag,musdibib,fsaall,papr,aep,papr,papr,fine,dcm,cmns,flwpabib,afcreed,cowellbib,toddbib,lomaxbib,ngp,raelbib,gottlieb,mtj,alad,gmd,wpa,mal,scsm,mcc,gmd,papr,gmd,aipn,papr,ncpm,ncpsbib,omhbib,gmd,pan,vv,wpapos,psbib,pin,presp,lhbprbib,qlt,gmd,ncr,relpet,gmd,papr,papr,dukesm,mussm,mesnbib,denn,amss,fpnas,papr,svybib,runyon,wtc,detr,hlaw,lhbumbib,varstg,horyd,mgw,hawp,nawbib,suffrg,papr,nfor:@field(DOCID+@lit(ABK4014-0077-67_bib))

# **Letter from Mabel Hubbard Bell to Alexander Graham Bell, undated**

http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=magbell&fileName=042/04200308/bellpage.db&recNum=0

What are you doing about the Harvest-home? Tell Gardiner I have already
bought three of the prizes. One is a blue Dutch-looking beer mug,
another a pair of man\'s silver sleeve links, and the third a woman\'s
pin.

**1901, August 31\...\...\....Saturday\...\...\....At B.B.**

The Harvest Home was held on August 27th, 1901. Seemed to be a success,
although attendance not so large as on former occasions. Dance in the
evening, however, was crowded. Miss Safford counted one hundred and
twenty-five persons on the field where the sports were held, and she
thinks there were probably more. If so we had about one half of the
attendance on former occasions. I forget the number at the last meeting,
but think there were over three hundred. However, we had a very pleasant
time. All the people seemed to enjoy themselves. I don\'t know what time
the dance broke up, but they seemed barely to have begun when I was
there about mid-night.

*Helen Keller gave the prizes. We are indebted to Edwin Grosvenor for
the great success of the whole event.*

*The young people seem to have dancing parties all the time \-- or
entertainments. Let me look back a few days. The entertainment for the
Baddeck Public Library, August 23, Friday; Saturday they must have gone
somewhere, I find no record of it. Monday August 26, dance at the
Telegraph House; Tuesday, August 27, Harvest Home;*

**Journal by Alexander Graham Bell, from September 2, 1901 to October
29, 1901**

http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=magbell&fileName=216/21600201/bellpage.db&recNum=0

\[Helen Keller at the Bell's Harvest Home festival\]

*During her stay there, Dr. Bell gave the annual harvest fete. It was
held earlier than usual in the season on her account, and she was the
queen of the festival. She was old the name of each contestant and his
characteristics noted. When she came re award the prizes, to the delight
of all she remembered each name and said something appropriate as she
gave the prize into the hand of the winner. One of the experiences she
most delights in was when she slept in a houseboat which was a mile and
a half from any human being, right in the woods of the great Bras d\'Or.
In her own words, \"It was a beautiful moonlight night, a glorious
night, and I got up early in the morning and took a fine constitutional
on deck.\" In conclusion, she said: \"Upon our return from Halifax we
took one last ramble, one last sail and one last picnic. Then, with a
heroic effort, we tore ourselves away from the delights of the summer
and turned our faces homeward and our thoughts collegeward.\"*

*When the return ship reached Boston harbor, Helen was out on the deck,
although it was early in the morning, and so vividly did she feel all
the passing glory, that this is an excerpt from a letter which she wrote
describing it: \"How beautiful it was. The whole world seemed steeped in
beauty; the sea an ever-changing miracle of loveliness, waited calmly
for the sun to come out of the East.*

# **Letter from Alexander Graham Bell to Marian Bell Fairchild, July 25, 1906**

http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=magbell&fileName=065/06500114/bellpage.db&recNum=0

*We are to have a Harvest Home here on August 17th, with Douglas McCurdy
in charge. He has prepared a notice which has been pasted up in the
window of McKay\'s Store and in other places which is really worth
reading. I shall ask Mr. Cox to enclose a copy of it.*

*THE HARVEST HOME,\
which takes place this afternoon. I had nothing to do with the
arrangements, so I had almost forgotten it. Edwin Grosvenor has had
charge of the whole thing. I give here a copy of Edwin Grosvenor\'s
programme which has been typewritten and posted up at the warehouse and
other places.*

*The programme is as follows: We may as well preserve here Marian\'s
programme for the Baddeck entertainment held last Friday, and Ed\'s
programme for our Harvest Home.*

## Correspondence

L. L. Doty to Sarah J. Hale, October 3, 1860 (Thanksgiving)

http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=mal&fileName=mal1/039/0391000/malpage.db&recNum=0

*I am directed by Governor Morgan to inclose herewith to you, a copy of
his Proclamation designating Thursday, November 29^th^ as a day of
public Thanksgiving in this State.*

Under his direction a copy has been mailed to the Governors of the
several states.

Nathaniel P. Banks to Sarah J. Hale, \[September 28, 1863\]
(Thanksgiving)

http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=mal&fileName=mal1/266/2668000/malpage.db&recNum=0

*It will afford me very great pleasure to comply with your request and
make the appointment for Thanksgiving on the 24^th^, the last Thursday
of November. The Governors of Rhode Island and the New Hampshire will do
the same.*

**Sarah J. Hale to Abraham Lincoln, September 28, 1863 (Thanksgiving)**

http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=mal&fileName=mal1/266/2669900/malpage.db&recNum=0

The influence of these state seasons of sacred remembrances, high
aspirations, and tender, yet happy household rejoicings would not only
be salutary on the character of our own citizens, but the world would be
made better and happier by the sentiments which our Festivals teach. . .
. If the germ of good feeling be ever so deeply buried under \'the
cares, and riches, and pleasures of this life,\' it may be brought out
by sympathy and vivified by culture and effort. A national feeling of
THANKSGIVING, putting the bounty, goodness, and love of the Creator
before the eyes of the dullest and the hearts of the coldest, would
effect incalcuable benefits to our Country.

**Sarah J. Hale to William H. Seward, October 9, 1864 (Thanksgiving)**

http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=mal&fileName=mal1/370/3708100/malpage.db&recNum=0

*Enclosed is an article (or proof) on the National Thanksgivings. As you
were, last year, kindly interested in this bubject, I ventured to
request your good offices again.....*

*I trust that President Lincoln will have issue his proclamation
appointing the last Thursday in November as the Day. I send a copy of
the proof for the President. You will greatly . .. me by handing this to
him and acquainting him with the contents of this letter. I do not like
to trouble him with a note.*

**Letter from Alexander Graham Bell to Mabel Hubbard Bell, November 24,
1904**

http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=magbell&fileName=042/04200420/bellpage.db&recNum=0

Mentions Mabel\'s mother giving away poultry - tradition, anniversary of
their engagement, and death of sons

## Government Proclamations

Boston Gazette and Country Journal (newspaper), November 13, 1775, King
George\'s \"Proclamation for Suppressing Rebellion and Sedition\";
Thanksgiving Day

http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=mtj1&fileName=mtj1page001.db&recNum=434

# **George Washington, November 30, 1777, General Orders**

http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=mgw3&fileName=mgw3g/gwpage002.db&recNum=312

*Forasmuch as it is the indispensible duty of all men, to adore the
superintending providence of Almighty God; to acknowledge with gratitude
their obligations to him for benefits received, and to implore such
further blessings as they stand in need of; and it having pleased him in
his abundant mercy, not only to continue to us the innumerable bounties
of his common providence, but also, to smile upon us in the prosecution
of a just and necessary war, for the defence of our unalienable rights
and
liberties.[^78^](http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/#N0162-180)*

*\[Note 78: This preliminary statement was taken from the resolve of
Congress of November 1 recommending the States to set apart a day of
Thanksgiving. It was to Washington on November 7 and answered by him on
November 10.\]*

*It is therefore recommended by Congress, that Thursday the 18th. day of
December next be set apart for Solemn Thanksgiving and Praise; that at
one time, and with one voice, the good people may express the grateful
feelings of their hearts, and consecrate themselves to the service of
their divine benefactor; and that, together with their sincere
acknowledgements and offerings they may join the penitent confession of
their sins; and supplications for such further blessings as they stand
in need of. The Chaplains will properly notice this recommendation, that
the day of thanksgiving may be duly observed in the army, agreeably to
the intentions of Congress.*

Continental Congress, October 11, 1782, Proclamation on Thanksgiving
Observation

http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=mgw4&fileName=gwpage088.db&recNum=279

**State of New-Hampshire. In Committee of Safety, Exeter, November 1,
1782 : Ordered, that the following proclamation for a general
thanksgiving on the twenty-eighth day of November instant, received from
the honorable Continental Congress, be forthwith printed \...**

http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/eaa,aap,aaeo,rbaapcbib,aasm,ftvbib,aaodyssey,hh,gottscho,mharendt,bbpix,bbcards,magbell,lbcoll,rbpebib,calbkbib,tccc,lhbcbbib,cwband,cwnyhs,gmd,cwar,cola,consrvbib,bdsbib,coolbib,coplandbib,curt,dag,musdibib,fsaall,papr,aep,papr,papr,fine,dcm,cmns,flwpabib,afcreed,cowellbib,toddbib,lomaxbib,ngp,raelbib,gottlieb,mtj,alad,gmd,wpa,mal,scsm,mcc,gmd,papr,gmd,aipn,papr,ncpm,ncpsbib,omhbib,gmd,pan,vv,wpapos,psbib,pin,presp,lhbprbib,qlt,gmd,ncr,relpet,gmd,papr,papr,dukesm,mussm,mesnbib,denn,amss,fpnas,papr,svybib,runyon,wtc,detr,hlaw,lhbumbib,varstg,horyd,mgw,hawp,nawbib,suffrg,papr,nfor:@field(NUMBER%2B@band(bdsdcc%2B%2B077-1))

# **The Diaries of George Washington. Vol. 5. \[November 1789\]**

http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/eaa,aap,aaeo,rbaapcbib,aasm,ftvbib,aaodyssey,hh,gottscho,mharendt,bbpix,bbcards,magbell,lbcoll,rbpebib,calbkbib,tccc,lhbcbbib,cwband,cwnyhs,gmd,cwar,cola,consrvbib,bdsbib,coolbib,coplandbib,curt,dag,musdibib,fsaall,papr,aep,papr,papr,fine,dcm,cmns,flwpabib,afcreed,cowellbib,toddbib,lomaxbib,ngp,raelbib,gottlieb,mtj,alad,gmd,wpa,mal,scsm,mcc,gmd,papr,gmd,aipn,papr,ncpm,ncpsbib,omhbib,gmd,pan,vv,wpapos,psbib,pin,presp,lhbprbib,qlt,gmd,ncr,relpet,gmd,papr,papr,dukesm,mussm,mesnbib,denn,amss,fpnas,papr,svybib,runyon,wtc,detr,hlaw,lhbumbib,varstg,horyd,mgw,hawp,nawbib,suffrg,papr:@field(DOCID+@lit(wd0553))

Pages 501-502

*Thursday 26th. Being the day appointed for a **thanksgiving** I went to
St. Pauls Chapel though it was most inclement and stormy\--but few
people at Church.*

*\[Footnote\] On 25 Sept. 1789 the House of Representatives resolved
that the president should recommend a day of **thanksgiving** and prayer
to the people of the United States acknowledging divine favor and
especially the \"opportunity peaceably to establish a Constitution of
government for their safety and happiness.\" The Senate concurred on 26
Sept. (DE PAUW, 3:226; ANNALS OF CONGRESS, 1:92). The wording of the
resolution did not escape comment. Rep. Aedanus Burke of South Carolina
objected to the \"mimicking of European customs.\" Thomas Tudor Tucker,
of South Carolina, felt that Congress had no right to ask for a day of
**thanksgiving**. Citizens \"may not be inclined to return thanks for a
Constitution until they have experienced that it promotes their safety
and happiness. We do not yet know but they may have reason to be
dissatisfied with the effects it has already produced; but whether this
be so or not, it is a business with which Congress have nothing to do .
. . . If a day of **thanksgiving** must take place, let it be done by
the authority of the several States; they know best what reason their
constituents have to be pleased with the establishment of this
Constitution\" (ANNALS OF CONGRESS, 1:949\--50). GW issued the
proclamation on 3 Oct., assigning 26 Nov. as the first **Thanksgiving**
Day under the Constitution (DLC:GW). In celebration of the day the
president contributed £7 10s. 4d. for \"provisions & beer\" to prisoners
confined for debt in the New York City jail (DECATUR, 91; N.Y. Journal,
3 Dec. 1789).*

**Abraham Lincoln to Friends of Union and Liberty, May 9, 1864 (Day of
thanksgiving)**

http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=mal&fileName=mal1/329/3293600/malpage.db&recNum=0

I recommend that all patriots, at their homes, in their places of public
worship, and wherever they . . ., unite in common thanksgiving and
prayer to Almighty God.

#### Bills and Resolutions, House of Representatives, 42th Congress, 3rd Session 1873

http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/eaa,aap,aaeo,rbaapcbib,aasm,ftvbib,aaodyssey,hh,gottscho,mharendt,bbpix,bbcards,magbell,lbcoll,rbpebib,calbkbib,tccc,lhbcbbib,cwband,cwnyhs,gmd,cwar,cola,consrvbib,bdsbib,coolbib,coplandbib,curt,dag,musdibib,fsaall,papr,aep,papr,papr,fine,dcm,cmns,flwpabib,afcreed,cowellbib,toddbib,lomaxbib,ngp,raelbib,gottlieb,mtj,alad,gmd,wpa,mal,scsm,mcc,gmd,papr,gmd,aipn,papr,ncpm,ncpsbib,omhbib,gmd,pan,vv,wpapos,psbib,pin,presp,lhbprbib,qlt,gmd,ncr,relpet,gmd,papr,papr,dukesm,mussm,mesnbib,denn,amss,fpnas,papr,svybib,runyon,wtc,detr,hlaw,lhbumbib,varstg,horyd,mgw,hawp,nawbib,suffrg,papr:@field(DOCID%2B@lit(llhb/042/12949000.tif))

*February 3, 1873*

*Read twice, referred to the Committee on Education and Labor, and
ordered to be printed. Mr. Hale, on leave, introduced the following
bill: A Bill To provide for the observance of a day of national
thanksgiving in all the States and Territories of the United States.*

**By the Governor 1879. A thanksgiving proclamation. Territory of Idaho.
\[Boise City 1879\]**.

http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/rbpebib:@field(NUMBER+@band(rbpe+01404200))

**Thanksgiving proclamation November 3, 1903**

http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/rbpebib:@field(NUMBER+@band(rbpe+00202000))

**State of Florida. Thanksgiving proclamation. William S. Jennings.
1904. \[Tallahassee, 1904**

http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/rbpebib:@field(NUMBER+@band(rbpe+01400800))

**Thanksgiving proclamation. November 5th 1904.**

http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/rbpebib:@field(NUMBER+@band(rbpe+00202200))

**Proclamation by the Governor Thanksgiving day, 1910.**

http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/rbpebib:@field(NUMBER+@band(rbpe+00202600))

**State of Delaware Executive Chamber Dover. Thanksgiving
proclamation\]. \[Dover\] 1910**

http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/rbpebib:@field(NUMBER+@band(rbpe+01305400))

## Stories and Accounts (Books, Magazines, Newspaper Articles, etc.)

#### Winnie and Walter : or, Story-telling at Thanksgiving. 1861

http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/svybib:@field(NUMBER%2B@band(miemsvy%2Bwwth))

*It was now the fall of the year, in the month of November, and Winnie
and Walter were looking forward with great delight to Thanksgiving. It
was the plan this year, that their old grandfather and some of their
uncles and aunts and cousins, should come and visit them, and spend
Thanksgiving with them. The year before they had gone to spend
Thanksgiving away from home, but now they were to stay at home and their
friends were to come and visit them.*

*I cannot tell you how long the time seemed to these children before
Thanksgiving day arrived. They had been looking forward to it with such
longing that the days dragged away very slowly to them, though they were
quite short enough for all the grown up people.*

*But at length the happy morning came, and the house was full of uncles
and aunts and cousins. There was Uncle William and Aunt Susan, Uncle
Oliver and Aunt Mary, and Cousin Alice, and several more besides, not to
forget the dear old grandfather, whom I have spoken of before. Some of
these who lived nearest, came the morning of Thanksgiving day, and some
had come the night before. I shall not stop to tell you much about the
day\--how the little folks played together, and the old folks went to
church\--and how much they all enjoyed their nice Thanksgiving dinner. I
shall leave all these things, because I wish to hurry along and come to
the evening. It was agreed, in order to please the children, that when
night was coming on, they should all gather around the bright open fire,
in the large sitting-room, and tell stories\--not stories which they had
heard from others, but stories about themselves.*

*So when the time came, the big armchair was fixed for grandfather,
right in the centre of the room, before the cheerful fire\--a good
distance back so as to make a large circle, and then the grown up folks
sat next to him, on each side, and the little children were in the
corners.*

**Georgia: Thanksgiving Services and First Impressions. \[The American
missionary. / Volume 34, Issue 1, Jan 1880**

http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/eaa,aap,aaeo,rbaapcbib,aasm,ftvbib,aaodyssey,hh,gottscho,mharendt,bbpix,bbcards,magbell,lbcoll,rbpebib,calbkbib,tccc,lhbcbbib,cwband,cwnyhs,gmd,cwar,cola,consrvbib,bdsbib,coolbib,coplandbib,curt,dag,musdibib,fsaall,papr,aep,papr,papr,fine,dcm,cmns,flwpabib,afcreed,cowellbib,toddbib,lomaxbib,ngp,raelbib,gottlieb,mtj,alad,gmd,wpa,mal,scsm,mcc,gmd,papr,gmd,aipn,papr,ncpm,ncpsbib,omhbib,gmd,pan,vv,wpapos,psbib,pin,presp,lhbprbib,qlt,gmd,ncr,relpet,gmd,papr,papr,dukesm,mussm,mesnbib,denn,amss,fpnas,papr,svybib,runyon,wtc,detr,hlaw,lhbumbib,varstg,horyd,mgw,hawp,nawbib,suffrg,papr,nfor:@field(DOCID+@lit(ABK5794-0034-15_bib))

About fifty were present, and there were repeated expressions of
gratitude for blessings here received, and fervent prayers for the
continued and increeeeasing success of the cause. One brother thought
the Association the chief agent in the abolition of slavery, and spoke
most feelingly of the inexpressible relief which that abolition had
brought to him and to his people. Another I his prayer thanked the Lord
for the schools and the church in the city, expressing the conviction
that if the A.M.A. had not sent its workers here "things would be in a
considerably worse fix than they are."

*One woman told her story: her blind gropings as a slave, her joy in
being sought out and taught by the teacthers of the A.M.A., just when sh
"did not know what tot dowither freedom," and made capable of giving her
children, now converted, a Christian training, with a purpose henceforth
to use for the good of others all the light and help she had received.*

**Our Thanksgiving in Atlanta. \[The American missionary. / Volume 39,
Issue 1, Jan 1885**

http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/eaa,aap,aaeo,rbaapcbib,aasm,ftvbib,aaodyssey,hh,gottscho,mharendt,bbpix,bbcards,magbell,lbcoll,rbpebib,calbkbib,tccc,lhbcbbib,cwband,cwnyhs,gmd,cwar,cola,consrvbib,bdsbib,coolbib,coplandbib,curt,dag,musdibib,fsaall,papr,aep,papr,papr,fine,dcm,cmns,flwpabib,afcreed,cowellbib,toddbib,lomaxbib,ngp,raelbib,gottlieb,mtj,alad,gmd,wpa,mal,scsm,mcc,gmd,papr,gmd,aipn,papr,ncpm,ncpsbib,omhbib,gmd,pan,vv,wpapos,psbib,pin,presp,lhbprbib,qlt,gmd,ncr,relpet,gmd,papr,papr,dukesm,mussm,mesnbib,denn,amss,fpnas,papr,svybib,runyon,wtc,detr,hlaw,lhbumbib,varstg,horyd,mgw,hawp,nawbib,suffrg,papr,nfor:@field(DOCID+@lit(ABK5794-0039-6_bib))

Rev. Mr. Carter, pastor of the Friendship Church (Baptist) took up the
theme in no hopeful strain, referring to a colored Federal office-holder
of this city, who had recently been responding to some speeches of
political magnates as though the colored people were to find their best
support from the Southern folks, and intimating that he and other such
men were talking thus only to secure official favor from the dominant
party, in which they were doomed to ignominious disappointment. Rev. E.
Kent, as was fitting for a true Yankee, brought out the connection
between this occasion and its New England prototype. Our people, as also
true Yankees by adoption, have come to cling tenaciously to the day and
its observance. Rev. Prof. C. W. Francis, pastor of the University
Church, offered the prayer of dedication, consecrating the chapel to the
uses of Christian worship and of Christian education.

**Our Thanksgiving in Atlanta. \[The American missionary. / Volume 39,
Issue 1, Jan 1885**

http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/eaa,aap,aaeo,rbaapcbib,aasm,ftvbib,aaodyssey,hh,gottscho,mharendt,bbpix,bbcards,magbell,lbcoll,rbpebib,calbkbib,tccc,lhbcbbib,cwband,cwnyhs,gmd,cwar,cola,consrvbib,bdsbib,coolbib,coplandbib,curt,dag,musdibib,fsaall,papr,aep,papr,papr,fine,dcm,cmns,flwpabib,afcreed,cowellbib,toddbib,lomaxbib,ngp,raelbib,gottlieb,mtj,alad,gmd,wpa,mal,scsm,mcc,gmd,papr,gmd,aipn,papr,ncpm,ncpsbib,omhbib,gmd,pan,vv,wpapos,psbib,pin,presp,lhbprbib,qlt,gmd,ncr,relpet,gmd,papr,papr,dukesm,mussm,mesnbib,denn,amss,fpnas,papr,svybib,runyon,wtc,detr,hlaw,lhbumbib,varstg,horyd,mgw,hawp,nawbib,suffrg,papr,nfor:@field(DOCID+@lit(ABK5794-0039-6_bib))

Rev. Mr. Carter, pastor of the Friendship Church (Baptist) took up the
theme in no hopeful strain, referring to a colored Federal office-holder
of this city, who had recently been responding to some speeches of
political magnates as though the colored people were to find their best
support from the Southern folks, and intimating that he and other such
men were talking thus only to secure official favor from the dominant
party, in which they were doomed to ignominious disappointment. Rev. E.
Kent, as was fitting for a true Yankee, brought out the connection
between this occasion and its New England prototype. Our people, as also
true Yankees by adoption, have come to cling tenaciously to the day and
its observance. Rev. Prof. C. W. Francis, pastor of the University
Church, offered the prayer of dedication, consecrating the chapel to the
uses of Christian worship and of Christian education.

**Thanksgiving at New Orleans. \[The American missionary. / Volume 40,
Issue 1, Jan 1886**

# http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/eaa,aap,aaeo,rbaapcbib,aasm,ftvbib,aaodyssey,hh,gottscho,mharendt,bbpix,bbcards,magbell,lbcoll,rbpebib,calbkbib,tccc,lhbcbbib,cwband,cwnyhs,gmd,cwar,cola,consrvbib,bdsbib,coolbib,coplandbib,curt,dag,musdibib,fsaall,papr,aep,papr,papr,fine,dcm,cmns,flwpabib,afcreed,cowellbib,toddbib,lomaxbib,ngp,raelbib,gottlieb,mtj,alad,gmd,wpa,mal,scsm,mcc,gmd,papr,gmd,aipn,papr,ncpm,ncpsbib,omhbib,gmd,pan,vv,wpapos,psbib,pin,presp,lhbprbib,qlt,gmd,ncr,relpet,gmd,papr,papr,dukesm,mussm,mesnbib,denn,amss,fpnas,papr,svybib,runyon,wtc,detr,hlaw,lhbumbib,varstg,horyd,mgw,hawp,nawbib,suffrg,papr,nfor:@field(DOCID+@lit(ABK5794-0040-13_bib)) 

Thanksgiving as an institution seems to be coming into more favor in
this region year by year. Whether because of the source from which the
Proclamation came, or from a better appreciation of the spirit of the
day, Thanksgiving was more generally observed than usual this year by
the New Orleans churches.

President Hitchcock, in his address, brought out prominently as a cause
for thankfulness the "good old times" which, he would have us believe,
are not a thing of the distant past only, when our forefathers
established the first Thanksgiving Day, but are much rather the times in
which we live. These are the "good times",\-- the times of advancement
in Christian charity, which shows itself in the prompt response to the
appeal of the sufferers from the Galveston fire, and more remarkably in
the constant provision for the sufferers from sin and ignorance
throughout the field of the American Missionary Association.

**A Glad Thanksgiving. \[The American missionary. / Volume 44, Issue 1,
Jan 1890**

http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/eaa,aap,aaeo,rbaapcbib,aasm,ftvbib,aaodyssey,hh,gottscho,mharendt,bbpix,bbcards,magbell,lbcoll,rbpebib,calbkbib,tccc,lhbcbbib,cwband,cwnyhs,gmd,cwar,cola,consrvbib,bdsbib,coolbib,coplandbib,curt,dag,musdibib,fsaall,papr,aep,papr,papr,fine,dcm,cmns,flwpabib,afcreed,cowellbib,toddbib,lomaxbib,ngp,raelbib,gottlieb,mtj,alad,gmd,wpa,mal,scsm,mcc,gmd,papr,gmd,aipn,papr,ncpm,ncpsbib,omhbib,gmd,pan,vv,wpapos,psbib,pin,presp,lhbprbib,qlt,gmd,ncr,relpet,gmd,papr,papr,dukesm,mussm,mesnbib,denn,amss,fpnas,papr,svybib,runyon,wtc,detr,hlaw,lhbumbib,varstg,horyd,mgw,hawp,nawbib,suffrg,papr,nfor:@field(DOCID+@lit(ABK5794-0044-10_bib))

*If any one had been the least bit homesick or unhappy from any cause on
Thanksgiving day, it would have done him good to spend the day at
Williamsburg Academy. Our boys and girls were so happy all the day that
no one could feel tired or sad. After breakfast the boys thought it
hardly fair for them to have all the holiday while the girls had to
work, so they borrowed aprons and helped the girls . . . .*

*After the housework was done the boys gathered a great quantity of
holly, and our pretty new dining-room was profusely decorated. All the
family then attended the Thanksgiving services in the Christian church;
that is all except the "Mother," who must needs watch the dinner in
process of preparation. We had a real Thanksgiving feast, in all except
that our turkey was fried chicken.*

**Thanksgiving at All Healing, N. C.. \[The American missionary. /
Volume 46, Issue 3, Mar 1892**

http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/eaa,aap,aaeo,rbaapcbib,aasm,ftvbib,aaodyssey,hh,gottscho,mharendt,bbpix,bbcards,magbell,lbcoll,rbpebib,calbkbib,tccc,lhbcbbib,cwband,cwnyhs,gmd,cwar,cola,consrvbib,bdsbib,coolbib,coplandbib,curt,dag,musdibib,fsaall,papr,aep,papr,papr,fine,dcm,cmns,flwpabib,afcreed,cowellbib,toddbib,lomaxbib,ngp,raelbib,gottlieb,mtj,alad,gmd,wpa,mal,scsm,mcc,gmd,papr,gmd,aipn,papr,ncpm,ncpsbib,omhbib,gmd,pan,vv,wpapos,psbib,pin,presp,lhbprbib,qlt,gmd,ncr,relpet,gmd,papr,papr,dukesm,mussm,mesnbib,denn,amss,fpnas,papr,svybib,runyon,wtc,detr,hlaw,lhbumbib,varstg,horyd,mgw,hawp,nawbib,suffrg,papr,nfor:@field(DOCID+@lit(ABK5794-0046-54_bib))

# Letter from Andersonville, Georgia

*When we first spoke of a Thanksgiving service, the people did not know
what we meant. One said that when they had Thanksgiving in slavery
times, they were asked to pray for the success of their army and they
would pray, "The Lord's will be done." They knew He did not mean for
them to be in bondage. She had confounded it with fast-day. When we
explained about the day, they were very glad to celebrate. I wish you
could have been at the meeting. When called on to say a few words if
they had anything to be thankful for, I think fifteen spoke.*

*One deacon from the Hardshell Baptist church said he had been studying
about this ever since he heard of it and he just made up his mind that
he would come and hear what it all meant; and after he heard the
discussion, he was so full that he couldn't begin to tell all the things
that he was thankful for. He never heard such a discussion in his life
and he never would forget it. One woman said that she never knew
anything about Thanksgiving, only to cook for the white folks, but
"thank the Lord I can come to the meeting myself to-day." One brother
said that he was "glad that the King on the throne had appointed this
day, that he thought of us poor people down here." It was such a
revelation that it was a national day and that they were a part of it.*

**Thanksgiving and Christmas at Ballard School. \[The American
missionary. / Volume 47, Issue 2, Feb 1893**

http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/eaa,aap,aaeo,rbaapcbib,aasm,ftvbib,aaodyssey,hh,gottscho,mharendt,bbpix,bbcards,magbell,lbcoll,rbpebib,calbkbib,tccc,lhbcbbib,cwband,cwnyhs,gmd,cwar,cola,consrvbib,bdsbib,coolbib,coplandbib,curt,dag,musdibib,fsaall,papr,aep,papr,papr,fine,dcm,cmns,flwpabib,afcreed,cowellbib,toddbib,lomaxbib,ngp,raelbib,gottlieb,mtj,alad,gmd,wpa,mal,scsm,mcc,gmd,papr,gmd,aipn,papr,ncpm,ncpsbib,omhbib,gmd,pan,vv,wpapos,psbib,pin,presp,lhbprbib,qlt,gmd,ncr,relpet,gmd,papr,papr,dukesm,mussm,mesnbib,denn,amss,fpnas,papr,svybib,runyon,wtc,detr,hlaw,lhbumbib,varstg,horyd,mgw,hawp,nawbib,suffrg,papr,nfor:@field(DOCID+@lit(ABK5794-0047-36_bib))

A few days before Thanksgiving, an appeal was made to the students in
all the rooms to give something in aid of some very poor but deserving
persons, as an offering to Almighty God for all His mercies during the
past year . . . . On Thanksgiving morning, with faces glowing with quiet
enthusiasm, in the students trooped, hundreds of them bringing gifts to
be deposited on the platforms of their respective class rooms. A genuine
esprit du corps took possession of them, and a generous strife was shown
as to which class should bring the most gifts.

**On the Trail of the Wild Turkey. \[Harper\'s new monthly magazine. /
Volume 89, Issue 534, November, 1894\]**

http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/eaa,aap,aaeo,rbaapcbib,aasm,ftvbib,aaodyssey,hh,gottscho,mharendt,bbpix,bbcards,magbell,lbcoll,rbpebib,calbkbib,tccc,lhbcbbib,cwband,cwnyhs,gmd,cwar,cola,consrvbib,bdsbib,coolbib,coplandbib,curt,dag,musdibib,fsaall,papr,aep,papr,papr,fine,dcm,cmns,flwpabib,afcreed,cowellbib,toddbib,lomaxbib,ngp,raelbib,gottlieb,mtj,alad,gmd,wpa,mal,scsm,mcc,gmd,papr,gmd,aipn,papr,ncpm,ncpsbib,omhbib,gmd,pan,vv,wpapos,psbib,pin,presp,lhbprbib,qlt,gmd,ncr,relpet,gmd,papr,papr,dukesm,mussm,mesnbib,denn,amss,fpnas,papr,svybib,runyon,wtc,detr,hlaw,lhbumbib,varstg,horyd,mgw,hawp,nawbib,suffrg,papr,nfor:@field(DOCID+@lit(ABK4014-0089-92_bib))

He might deserve some credit, too, in a contest with the eagle, for
having ministered with his plump and toothsome breast to the dire wants
of our very first American forebears, as the journals of Captain John
Smith, William Byrd, and their contemporaries will attest. Not to dwell
too long on his comparative virtues as a national emblem, might we not
suggest, finally, that if he had received his due, it had not come to
pass that the hoary impostor, Old Abe, made game of fifty millions of
people, and their years of confidence, by calmly laying an egg?

* It is not, however, as a disappointed but deserving figure-head that
his closest acquaintances value this royal prototype of our Thanksgiving
fowl. Compared with the times of which the Virginian, William Byrd,
writes, there are few wild turkeys left in America; like the moose, they
are entirely alien to civilized conditions. Sadly and silently they wing
their way back to the yet untrammeled peaks, where for another season or
two\
they may be beyond the sound of railroads and summer resorts.*

# **Thanksgiving Day. \[The American missionary. / Volume 50, Issue 3, Mar 1896**

http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/eaa,aap,aaeo,rbaapcbib,aasm,ftvbib,aaodyssey,hh,gottscho,mharendt,bbpix,bbcards,magbell,lbcoll,rbpebib,calbkbib,tccc,lhbcbbib,cwband,cwnyhs,gmd,cwar,cola,consrvbib,bdsbib,coolbib,coplandbib,curt,dag,musdibib,fsaall,papr,aep,papr,papr,fine,dcm,cmns,flwpabib,afcreed,cowellbib,toddbib,lomaxbib,ngp,raelbib,gottlieb,mtj,alad,gmd,wpa,mal,scsm,mcc,gmd,papr,gmd,aipn,papr,ncpm,ncpsbib,omhbib,gmd,pan,vv,wpapos,psbib,pin,presp,lhbprbib,qlt,gmd,ncr,relpet,gmd,papr,papr,dukesm,mussm,mesnbib,denn,amss,fpnas,papr,svybib,runyon,wtc,detr,hlaw,lhbumbib,varstg,horyd,mgw,hawp,nawbib,suffrg,papr,nfor:@field(DOCID+@lit(ABK5794-0050-51_bib))

*Thanksgiving Day.---Rev. C.L. Hall gives us the following interesting
glimpse of Thanksgiving in a prairie mission school:*

*"We are to have a church dinner on Thanksgiving (Shak-s-shte-hun), for
which the church have collected produce and money, so that there will
bee a large thank offering to the Lord, all paid up, not subscribed.
Mrs. Black Rabbit and Mrs. Crow and Mrs. Two Bears and Cedar Woman are
on the committee to help cook and prepare dinner. There are rabbits and
geese and beef to cook, which is cooked and which cook you can decide.*

*Clear moonlight on the now, mild but no thaw, fine sledding. It was a
good night to come home from prayer meeting at Deacon Manybears."*

**Thanksgiving Day \[from newspaper\]**

http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/eaa,aap,aaeo,rbaapcbib,aasm,ftvbib,aaodyssey,hh,gottscho,mharendt,bbpix,bbcards,magbell,lbcoll,rbpebib,calbkbib,tccc,lhbcbbib,cwband,cwnyhs,gmd,cwar,cola,consrvbib,bdsbib,coolbib,coplandbib,curt,dag,musdibib,fsaall,papr,aep,papr,papr,fine,dcm,cmns,flwpabib,afcreed,cowellbib,toddbib,lomaxbib,ngp,raelbib,gottlieb,mtj,alad,gmd,wpa,mal,scsm,mcc,gmd,papr,gmd,aipn,papr,ncpm,ncpsbib,omhbib,gmd,pan,vv,wpapos,psbib,pin,presp,lhbprbib,qlt,gmd,ncr,relpet,gmd,papr,papr,dukesm,mussm,mesnbib,denn,amss,fpnas,papr,svybib,runyon,wtc,detr,hlaw,lhbumbib,varstg,horyd,mgw,hawp,nawbib,suffrg,papr,nfor:@field(DOCID%2B@lit(o3207))

From Cleveland Journal in *AA Experience Ohio.* About looking forward
and looking back. 11-21-03

**Thanksgiving \[from newspaper\]**

http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/eaa,aap,aaeo,rbaapcbib,aasm,ftvbib,aaodyssey,hh,gottscho,mharendt,bbpix,bbcards,magbell,lbcoll,rbpebib,calbkbib,tccc,lhbcbbib,cwband,cwnyhs,gmd,cwar,cola,consrvbib,bdsbib,coolbib,coplandbib,curt,dag,musdibib,fsaall,papr,aep,papr,papr,fine,dcm,cmns,flwpabib,afcreed,cowellbib,toddbib,lomaxbib,ngp,raelbib,gottlieb,mtj,alad,gmd,wpa,mal,scsm,mcc,gmd,papr,gmd,aipn,papr,ncpm,ncpsbib,omhbib,gmd,pan,vv,wpapos,psbib,pin,presp,lhbprbib,qlt,gmd,ncr,relpet,gmd,papr,papr,dukesm,mussm,mesnbib,denn,amss,fpnas,papr,svybib,runyon,wtc,detr,hlaw,lhbumbib,varstg,horyd,mgw,hawp,nawbib,suffrg,papr,nfor:@field(DOCID%2B@lit(o5247))

From Cleveland Journal in *AA Experience Ohio.* About being thankful in
the midst of challenges, finding the good during trials - strength to
endure - hope, faith. 11-20-09.

**Selected Recipes and Menus for Parties, Holidays, and Special
Occasions \~1920s**

http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/eaa,aaodyssey,hh,gottscho,bbpix,bbcards,lbcoll,cwnyhs,cwar,consrvbib,coolbib,coplandbib,curt,dag,fsaall,aep,fine,dcm,cmns,cowellbib,toddbib,lomaxbib,ngp,gottlieb,alad,mcc,aipn,omhbib,pan,vv,wpapos,psbib,pin,presp,qlt,ncr,mesnbib,denn,runyon,wtc,detr,varstg,horyd,hawp,suffrg:@field(DOCID%2B@lit(CK0045))

Thanksgiving Dinner Menu: Assorted Canapes, Turkey with Chestnut
Stuffing and Giblet Gravy, Baked Onions, Baked Squah, Caramel Sweet
Potatoes, Mashed Potatoes, Molded Cranberry Jelly, Celery, Olives,
Orange Delight Salad, Hot Baking Powder Biscuits, Pumpkin Pie, Caramel
Nnut Cake, Coffee, Salted Nuts, Bonbons

#### Mrs. Hulda Esther Thorpe

http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/eaa,aap,aaeo,rbaapcbib,aasm,ftvbib,aaodyssey,hh,gottscho,mharendt,bbpix,bbcards,magbell,lbcoll,rbpebib,calbkbib,tccc,lhbcbbib,cwband,cwnyhs,gmd,cwar,cola,consrvbib,bdsbib,coolbib,coplandbib,curt,dag,musdibib,fsaall,papr,aep,papr,papr,fine,dcm,cmns,flwpabib,afcreed,cowellbib,toddbib,lomaxbib,ngp,raelbib,gottlieb,mtj,alad,gmd,wpa,mal,scsm,mcc,gmd,papr,gmd,aipn,papr,ncpm,ncpsbib,omhbib,gmd,pan,vv,wpapos,psbib,pin,presp,lhbprbib,qlt,gmd,ncr,relpet,gmd,papr,papr,dukesm,mussm,mesnbib,denn,amss,fpnas,papr,svybib,runyon,wtc,detr,hlaw,lhbumbib,varstg,horyd,mgw,hawp,nawbib,suffrg,papr:@field(DOCID+@lit(17061409))

*One of the best Thanksgiving dinners we ever knew of was when a family
of settlers had their nice wild turkey dinner taken by the Indians, who
came in silently and just shoved the folks back and eat it up.*

*They did not harm the white people though and after they were gone the
women made a big corn bread and with what few things the Indians left,
they had a feast, the best as the daughter tells, that she ever eat.
This was because they were so happy and thankful that the Indians spared
them.*

**The frontier holiday; being a collection of writings by Minnesota
pioneers who recorded their divers ways of observing Christmas,
Thanksgiving, and New Year\'s. Ed. and illus. by Glenn Hanson.**

http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/lhbumbib:@field(NUMBER+@band(lhbum+48053))

*Thanksgiving crowded Christmas when Alexander Ramsey, governor of the
Territory of Minnesota, proclaimed, at the behest of a group of
clergymen, Minnesota\'s first official day of thanks for December 26,
1850. The holiday was observed the day after Christmas for fourteen
years until 1864 when President Lincoln set the last Thursday of
November as the national Thanksgiving. The first territorial thanks day
was marked by ringing bells at sunrise and sunset of the twenty-sixth.
Special morning services were held in the churches. In the evening a
\"magnificent ball\" was held in St. Paul at Mazourka Hall which a short
time before had been equipped with \"transparencies, paintings,
pictures, and chandeliers in a style of superb elegance.\"*

*Our first Thanksgiving found a sparsely settled territory including all
of what is now the State of Minnesota plus the Dakotas as far west as
the Missouri River. The nine counties of the territory counted only a
few more than 6,000 people. St. Paul was a frontier village with about
225 dwellings, while St. Anthony boasted only 115.*

## Poems

**Thanksgiving (Poem) Putnam\'s monthly magazine of American literature,
science and art. / Volume 4, Issue 22, October 1854**

http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/eaa,aap,aaeo,rbaapcbib,aasm,ftvbib,aaodyssey,hh,gottscho,mharendt,bbpix,bbcards,magbell,lbcoll,rbpebib,calbkbib,tccc,lhbcbbib,cwband,cwnyhs,gmd,cwar,cola,consrvbib,bdsbib,coolbib,coplandbib,curt,dag,musdibib,fsaall,papr,aep,papr,papr,fine,dcm,cmns,flwpabib,afcreed,cowellbib,toddbib,lomaxbib,ngp,raelbib,gottlieb,mtj,alad,gmd,wpa,mal,scsm,mcc,gmd,papr,gmd,aipn,papr,ncpm,ncpsbib,omhbib,gmd,pan,vv,wpapos,psbib,pin,presp,lhbprbib,qlt,gmd,ncr,relpet,gmd,papr,papr,dukesm,mussm,mesnbib,denn,amss,fpnas,papr,svybib,runyon,wtc,detr,hlaw,lhbumbib,varstg,horyd,mgw,hawp,nawbib,suffrg,papr,nfor:@field(DOCID+@lit(ABK9283-0004-139_bib))

*First Stanza:*

*My heart is full of songs unsung,*

*That shame the slowness of my tongue;*

*And God beholds how thronged with praise*

*My thoughts walk down the silent ways*

*That lead from life.*

*I pray, thus with your hand in mine,*

*We may encounter Proserpine*

*At evening, wife.*

**War Christians Thanksgiving. \[n. p.\] \[n. d.\]**

http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/eaa,aap,aaeo,rbaapcbib,aasm,ftvbib,aaodyssey,hh,gottscho,mharendt,bbpix,bbcards,magbell,lbcoll,rbpebib,calbkbib,tccc,lhbcbbib,cwband,cwnyhs,gmd,cwar,cola,consrvbib,bdsbib,coolbib,coplandbib,curt,dag,musdibib,fsaall,papr,aep,papr,papr,fine,dcm,cmns,flwpabib,afcreed,cowellbib,toddbib,lomaxbib,ngp,raelbib,gottlieb,mtj,alad,gmd,wpa,mal,scsm,mcc,gmd,papr,gmd,aipn,papr,ncpm,ncpsbib,omhbib,gmd,pan,vv,wpapos,psbib,pin,presp,lhbprbib,qlt,gmd,ncr,relpet,gmd,papr,papr,dukesm,mussm,mesnbib,denn,amss,fpnas,papr,svybib,runyon,wtc,detr,hlaw,lhbumbib,varstg,horyd,mgw,hawp,nawbib,suffrg,papr,nfor:@field(DOCID%2B@lit(cw106300))

First Stanza:

*O God of Battles! once again\
With banner, trump and drum,\
And garments in Thy wine-press dyed,\
To give thee thanks, we come!*

**National Thanksgiving ode. By C. C. Haven. Air- Old hundred. Trenton
N. J., November, 1863.**

http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/eaa,aap,aaeo,rbaapcbib,aasm,ftvbib,aaodyssey,hh,gottscho,mharendt,bbpix,bbcards,magbell,lbcoll,rbpebib,calbkbib,tccc,lhbcbbib,cwband,cwnyhs,gmd,cwar,cola,consrvbib,bdsbib,coolbib,coplandbib,curt,dag,musdibib,fsaall,papr,aep,papr,papr,fine,dcm,cmns,flwpabib,afcreed,cowellbib,toddbib,lomaxbib,ngp,raelbib,gottlieb,mtj,alad,gmd,wpa,mal,scsm,mcc,gmd,papr,gmd,aipn,papr,ncpm,ncpsbib,omhbib,gmd,pan,vv,wpapos,psbib,pin,presp,lhbprbib,qlt,gmd,ncr,relpet,gmd,papr,papr,dukesm,mussm,mesnbib,denn,amss,fpnas,papr,svybib,runyon,wtc,detr,hlaw,lhbumbib,varstg,horyd,mgw,hawp,nawbib,suffrg,papr,nfor:@field(DOCID%2B@lit(as109370))

\"Our Fathers\' GOD!\" \"And, arm\'d with Faith, dismiss our fears.\"
\"The Trusts we hold, preserve, as now,/ From Sires to Sons for ever
due.\" \"We welcome with no common joy/ Our Freedmen\'s rescue and
relief,/ Heroic aids in our employ,/ With us they\'ll bless our noble
Chief.\"

**Thanksgiving Turkey. \[Harper\'s new monthly magazine. / Volume 54,
Issue 319, December 1876\]**

http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/eaa,aap,aaeo,rbaapcbib,aasm,ftvbib,aaodyssey,hh,gottscho,mharendt,bbpix,bbcards,magbell,lbcoll,rbpebib,calbkbib,tccc,lhbcbbib,cwband,cwnyhs,gmd,cwar,cola,consrvbib,bdsbib,coolbib,coplandbib,curt,dag,musdibib,fsaall,papr,aep,papr,papr,fine,dcm,cmns,flwpabib,afcreed,cowellbib,toddbib,lomaxbib,ngp,raelbib,gottlieb,mtj,alad,gmd,wpa,mal,scsm,mcc,gmd,papr,gmd,aipn,papr,ncpm,ncpsbib,omhbib,gmd,pan,vv,wpapos,psbib,pin,presp,lhbprbib,qlt,gmd,ncr,relpet,gmd,papr,papr,dukesm,mussm,mesnbib,denn,amss,fpnas,papr,svybib,runyon,wtc,detr,hlaw,lhbumbib,varstg,horyd,mgw,hawp,nawbib,suffrg,papr,nfor:@field(DOCID+@lit(ABK4014-0054-23_bib))

*First Stanza:*

VALLEYS lay in sunny vapor,\
 And a radiance mild was shed\
From each tree that like a taper\
 At a feast stood. Then we said,\
Our feast, too, shall soon be spread,\
Of good Thanksgiving turkey.

## Images

**Stereoscopic views of health and welfare buildings, New York City**

\[1860?-1880?\]

# Home for the Friendless, and at Thanksgiving dinner; Five Points Mission

**James River, Va. Butler\'s dredge-boat, sunk by a Confederate shell on
Thanksgiving Day, 1864**

http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/cwar:@field(NUMBER+@band(cwp+4a39725))

**The banquet \[than\]ksgiving**

http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/hawp:@field(NUMBER+@band(codhawp+10060298))

*Uniformed Colorado National Guard soldiers are seated at a Thanksgiving
banquet table during a Western Federation of Miners labor strike in
Leadville, Lake County, Colorado. A woman sits at the head of the
table.*

*1896 or 1897*

**Football: Meeker, Colorado (\~1900-1915)**

http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/hawp:@field(NUMBER+@band(codhawp+10012377))

*Football game being played on the old parade ground square on
Thanksgiving day, Meeker, Rio Blanco County, Colorado. Spectators are on
sidelines of grounds surrounded with a picket fence. Store on far right
corner occupied by A. Oldland and Company, Antlers Hotel, center, and
the Oddfellows Hall is on the far left.*

#### Youth's Companion

http://lcweb2.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/i?pp/cai:@field(NUMBER%2B@band(cai%2B2a12231)):displayType=1:m856sd=cai:m856sf=2a12231

**First Thanksgiving \[\~1900-1920\]**

http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/detr:@field(NUMBER+@band(det+4a26654))

**Photographs from Alexander Graham Bell's 1901 Harvest Home**

http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=magbell&fileName=216/21600101/bellpage.db&recNum=168

**A butcher shop window at Thanksgiving time. Norwich, Connecticut.**

http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/fsaall:@field(NUMBER%2B@band(fsa%2B8a34807))

**\[Other 1940 Butcher Shop photos available\]**

**Mrs. T. M. Crouch, of Ledyard. Connecticut pouring some water over her
twenty-pound turkey on Thanksgiving Day. 1940**

http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/fsaall:@field(NUMBER+@band(fsa+8c03866))

**\[Other 1940 Crouch Family photos available in FSA/OWI\]**

**Store closed for Thanksgiving Day football game. Payette, Idaho.
1941**

http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/fsaall:@field(NUMBER+@band(fsa+8c23094))

**Neffsville, Pennsylvania. Earle Landis freezing ice cream on the back
porch on Thanksgiving day. When it gets hard, his son sits on the
freezer to hold it down. 1942**

http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/fsaall:@field(NUMBER+@band(fsa+8d10734))

Neffsville, Pennsylvania. Earle Landis freezing ice cream on the back
porch on Thanksgiving day. When it gets hard, his son sits on the
freezer to hold it down.

**\[Other 1942 Landis Family photos available in FSA/OWI\]**

**Washington, D.C. Dr. Mordica Johnson, president of Howard University,
serving portions of Thanksgiving turkey to members of his family.**

http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/fsaall:@field(NUMBER+@band(fsa+8d10908))

**\[Other 1942 Johnson Family photos available in FSA/OWI\]**