The first Thanksgiving 1621 / J.L.G. Ferris. – Vintage Print
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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The first Thanksgiving 1621 / J.L.G. Ferris. comes to life in this historic print, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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The first Thanksgiving 1621 / J.L.G. Ferris.
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This color halftone reproduces an oil painting by J.L.G. Ferris, issued in 1932 by The Foundation Press of Cleveland as number 6 in its *Pageant of a Nation* series. The scene shows the autumn 1621 harvest gathering at Plymouth Colony, where the Pilgrims and their Wampanoag neighbors shared a meal of local foods after a successful harvest. Ferris, a painter of historical scenes, produced many images like this for schoolrooms and popular audiences in the early 1930s, when the Pilgrim feast was becoming a fixed national holiday. Look closely at the mix of clothing, dwellings and foods, which reflects how the period was imagined and taught at the time as much as how it was recorded.
| Created / published | Cleveland, Ohio : The Foundation Press, Inc., c1932. |
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| Medium | 1 photomechanical print : halftone, color. |
| Genre | Oil paintings Reproductions 1930-1940.Halftone photomechanical prints Color 1930-1940. |
| Notes | K17395 U.S. Copyright Office. Reproduction of oil painting from series: The Pageant of a Nation. No. 6. Copyright by The Foundation Press, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio. |
| Subjects | Thanksgiving Day--1620-1630. Pilgrims (New Plymouth Colony)--1620-1630. Indians of North America--Massachusetts--1620-1630. Eating & drinking--1620-1630. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,162 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-112899 |
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