Thanksgiving Maskers – Vintage Print
(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
Description
This rare historic image captures Thanksgiving Maskers in remarkable detail. Drawn from the Snapshots of the Past archive, it is an authentic piece of documented history.
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Thanksgiving Maskers
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Masked figures on Thanksgiving recall a time when the holiday shared its streets with the rowdier customs of late autumn. Costumed revelers, often young men and boys, went from house to house or through town in disguise, a practice that overlapped with Halloween and with older European mumming traditions. Thanksgiving became a national holiday only in 1863, when Abraham Lincoln proclaimed a day of observance, and Congress fixed it as the fourth Thursday in November in 1941. Photographs like this one document a custom that was common in towns of the period but rarely recorded in detail.
| Original scan | 5,741 × 4,172 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | 10010u |
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