School children's Thanksgiving Games, 11/27/11 – Vintage 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 rare historic photograph captures School children's Thanksgiving Games, 11/27/11 in remarkable detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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School children's Thanksgiving Games, 11/27/11
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Children at a school playing Thanksgiving games are the subject of this 1911 glass negative, dated November 27, 1911. That was a Monday, three days before the national holiday, so the scene likely reflects the school celebrations that led up to the feast rather than the holiday itself. Thanksgiving had been observed nationally since Abraham Lincoln's 1863 proclamation, and by the early 1900s schools often marked it with games, songs, and harvest-themed activities. The George Grantham Bain Collection came from the Bain News Service, a photo agency whose negatives offer a broad record of daily life in that period, though the title here is taken from the agency's own unverified notes.
| Created / published | 11/27/11. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller. |
| Genre | Glass negatives. |
| Notes | Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. Temp. note: Batch three loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 5,754 × 4,266 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-11243 |
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