Home To Thanksgiving – 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.)
Description
Few images capture their era like this antique lithograph of Home To Thanksgiving. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Home To Thanksgiving
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Few details come with this one, but its title places it within the American holiday that grew out of autumn harvest gatherings. The popular image of the feast owes much to the 1621 meal at Plymouth, which is often cited as the first such celebration, though the tradition developed unevenly over the following two centuries. President Abraham Lincoln proclaimed a national day of thanksgiving in 1863, and by 1941 Congress had fixed the holiday on the fourth Thursday of November. Images of the day often center on family tables, gathered households, and the rituals of giving thanks, which makes them useful records of changing domestic life.
| Created / published | c. 1867 |
|---|---|
| Medium | print, lithograph |
| Notes | Published by Currier & Ives, New York. Artist, George H. Durrie. On stone by John Schutler |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,560 × 3,000 px · prints to 15 × 10 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 00780u |
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