Snapshots of the Past

Thanksgiving – Vintage Wall Art

Thanksgiving — historic image
Thanksgiving. Historic image from the Thanksgiving collection.

(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

Description

Thanksgiving comes to life in this historic image, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. Drawn from the Snapshots of the Past archive, it is an authentic piece of documented history.

Framed, it is ready for the wall; unframed, it is ready for the frame you choose. Perfect for a home, office, library or classroom wall, and a gift with a story behind it. Free shipping in the lower 48 states. Snapshots of the Past, founded in 2001, has served tens of thousands of customers worldwide.

Thanksgiving

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Thanksgiving as a holiday has a long and uneven history in American life, and this picture belongs to a gallery board devoted to how the day was pictured over time. Scenes of the harvest feast, family tables and gathered households became a staple of illustrated magazines and printed art in the late 1800s and early 1900s, when the nation was working to build a shared set of holiday traditions. Pictures like this one helped turn a regional custom into a national symbol of home, plenty and gratitude. Its record gives little further detail, so the image is best read as a window onto that broader effort to define the American holiday.

Original scan2,367 × 1,539 px · prints to 8 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceThanksgiving (52)

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