Uncle Sam's Thanksgiving dinner – Antique 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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This antique engraving of Uncle Sam's Thanksgiving dinner brings a moment of history to your wall. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Uncle Sam's Thanksgiving dinner
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Thomas Nast's wood engraving of Uncle Sam's Thanksgiving dinner appeared in *Harper's Weekly* on November 20, 1869, placing the nation's familiar personification at a holiday table. Thanksgiving had become a fixed national observance only in recent years, after Abraham Lincoln proclaimed a national day of thanksgiving in 1863, and Nast used the occasion as a setting for political commentary. The caption tracings list subjects including foreign relations and public affairs, which suggests the scene speaks to the state of the country as much as to the holiday. Nast was the magazine's leading cartoonist and later became known for his attacks on the Tammany Hall politician William Marcy "Boss" Tweed.
| Created / published | 1869 |
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| Medium | 1 print : wood engraving. |
| Notes | Wood engraving by Thomas Nast. Illus. in: Harper's Weekly, (1869 Nov. 20), p. 745. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Publ. Ind.; Holidays; For. Relations; Uncle Sam; Cartoons, U.S. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,068 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-157654 |
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