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Burdick & Murray Display Window

Date: 11 20 1933
Description: Thanksgiving dining room display window at Burdick & Murray, 15-19 East Main Street. Featuring a mannequin wearing a dress and an apron, linens, china, cry...
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Volunteers of America Giving Out a Thanksgiving Basket

Date: 11 29 1933
Description: Volunteers of America volunteer handing out a Thanksgiving food basket.
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Our Lady Queen of Peace Church Harvest Dance

Date: 11 19 1957
Description: Our Lady Queen of Peace Parish holds a fall harvest dance in the church auditorium. Holding a poster for the dance are (left to right): James W. Gower, 625...
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Turkey Dinner

Date: 1952
Description: A small girl and a turkey posing in front of a rafter (flock) of turkeys. She is wearing a snowsuit, mittens, and a plaid hat with a pompom. She is holding...
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W.A. Holt and Daughter Eleanor Tobogganing

Date: 11 26 1903
Description: Smiling at the camera, daughter Eleanor Holt is tobogganing with her father W.A. Holt in the backyard of the Holt family home. Aunt Nell is standing behind...
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Alfred Holt Snowshoeing

Date: 11 26 1903
Description: Alfred Holt is snowshoeing in the backyard of the Holt family home in Oconto. A wood fence and neighboring homes are in the background. Caption reads: "Alf...
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Thanksgiving Sleigh Ride

Date: 11 1903
Description: W.A. Holt and three children posing for a group portrait in the horse-drawn sleigh on Thanksgiving. Holding the reins, Alfred Holt is sitting next to his f...
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Thanksgiving Dinner in Class

Date: 11 21 1967
Description: A woman is carving a turkey, which is on a table full of many dishes. Several children are sitting and looking on from behind their desks. Caption reads: "...
Manuscript

Second Aviation Instruction Center Thanksgiving Day Menu

Date: 1918
Description: Thanksgiving Day dinner menu given by the Second Aviation Instruction Center of the American Expeditionary Forces near Tours, France. Features two servicem...
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Schlitz Hotel Thanksgiving Dinner Menu

Date: 11 29 1906
Description: Front cover and menu pages of the a la carte and table d'hote options for Thanksgiving dinner at the Schlitz Hotel, with a boy wearing only a chef's hat an...
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CCC Camp Nine Mile Thanksgiving Dinner Menu

Date: 11 28 1935
Description: Thanksgiving dinner menu from the Civilian Conservation Corps, 641st Company, at Camp Nine Mile, with a profile view of a turkey.
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Lake Edge Congregational Church Christmas Bazaar Trellis

Date: 11 11 1954
Description: Mrs. Elwin Willett of 4115 Jerome Street (left) and Mrs. Robert (Helen) Brettell of 4603 Gordon Avenue, president of the Ladies Fellowship at Lake Edge Con...
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Party Fixins' Booth

Date: 11 11 1954
Description: Mrs. Irvine (Marg) Elliott of 4601 Wallace Avenue, co-chairman of the "Party Fixins' booth at the Lake Edge Congregational Church bazaar, wears the cap and...
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Lake Edge Congregational Church Christmas Bazaar Picture

Date: 11 11 1954
Description: Mrs. Herbert Szelestey of 5410 Esther Beach Road puts the finishing touches on the first of several large pictures that illustrate the old song, "An Old-Fa...
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Thanksgiving with Grandmother

Date: 11 18 1954
Description: John "Mike" Stein, 3 years; Scott Stein, 9 months; Dainty Stein, grandmother; Malitta Jensen, grandmother; Mrs. John W. Stein, mother, celebrate a three ge...
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Truck Towing Pirate Ship Float in Parade

Date: 11 25 1976
Description: Color photo of a Thanksgiving Day Parade, either Macy's Parade in Manhattan, New York, or Gimbels' Parade in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. A blue and brown I...
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Thanksgiving with Grandmother

Date: 11 18 1954
Description: Portrait of two women and an infant as they celebrate a three-generation Thanksgiving gathering at the Rendall home. William "Jay" Rendall, 9 months; Joan ...
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Thanksgiving with Grandmother

Date: 11 18 1954
Description: Deborah Fagan, 2 years; Katherine Fagan, 2 months; Mary Fagan, mother; Helen Fagan, grandmother, celebrate a three-generational Thanksgiving at the Fagan h...
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Princess Margaret with British 434 Tractor

Date: 10 29 1966
Description: Service of Thanksgiving for the harvest at Westminster Abbey, London. Princess Margaret, Mr. Fred Peart, Minister of Agriculture (2nd right), and Mr. Hugh ...
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Weighing a Turkey

Date: 11 1947
Description: A worker at Frank Lyons Turkey Farm, Verona, is weighing a turkey as two girls are looking on.

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