The first Thanksgiving 1621 / J.L.G. Ferris. – Vintage Wall Art
(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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This rare historic print captures The first Thanksgiving 1621 / J.L.G. Ferris. in remarkable detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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The first Thanksgiving 1621 / J.L.G. Ferris.
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Most images of the 1621 Plymouth harvest feast show a crowded table, but this color reproduction of J.L.G. Ferris's oil painting presents the meal as an encounter between Pilgrims and Massachusetts Indians, the people named in its subject headings. The feast, held in autumn 1621 after the colony's first harvest, was a three-day celebration that later became the model for the national Thanksgiving holiday. Ferris, an American painter known for historical scenes, made the original work, and this print was issued around 1932 by The Foundation Press of Cleveland as part of its *Pageant of a Nation* series. The image reflects how Americans of that era imagined their founding stories.
| 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 | 4,096 × 3,269 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-218803 |
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