Thanksgiving Proclamation – Antique 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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A window into the past: Thanksgiving Proclamation, preserved in this historic image. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Thanksgiving Proclamation
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The proclamation's title names the New Hampshire Committee of Safety and sets it in 1782, a year when the Revolutionary War was winding down after the British surrender at Yorktown in 1781. Thanksgiving proclamations of this era were issued by colonial and state authorities to call residents to public prayer and gratitude, often in response to the war's progress or to a recommendation from the Continental Congress. Such documents usually set a fixed day of observance and a call to religious worship, so they show how civic and religious life were tied together in the early republic. Read today, the wording offers a direct view of how leaders framed the end of a long conflict.
| Medium | sheet, 35 x 22 cm. |
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| Notes | State of New-Hampshire. In Committee of Safety, Exeter, November 1, 1782. Signed, M. Weare, president. Followed by the proclamation of the Continental Congress, dated Oct. 11, 1782, and signed: John Hanson, president. Charles Thomson, secretary. Manuscript Department, Library of Congress |
| Source | Library of Congress |
| Original scan | 2,650 × 4,224 px · prints to 9 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | new hampshire proclimation 1 1782 |
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