Lincoln Thanksgiving Proclamation – Historic Print
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Few images capture their era like this historic image of Lincoln Thanksgiving Proclamation. It is part of the Snapshots of the Past archive, gathered over 25 years of research.
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Lincoln Thanksgiving Proclamation
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Abraham Lincoln's name is the detail that anchors this one, since it points to his 1863 proclamation establishing a national day of thanksgiving. Issued in the middle of the Civil War, the proclamation asked Americans to set aside a day, the last Thursday of November, to give thanks for the nation's blessings and to pray for healing and peace. Its wording reflected a wartime hope that gratitude could help hold a divided country together. The document also helped shape the Thanksgiving holiday that Americans have observed ever since, so it is worth looking closely at how a wartime order came to define a national tradition.
| Original scan | 1,457 × 2,231 px · prints to 5 × 7 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | Lincoln Thanksgiving Proclamation |
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