The First Thanksgiving, 1621 – Historic Reproduction
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Description
This rare historic print captures The First Thanksgiving, 1621 in remarkable detail. Drawn from the Snapshots of the Past archive, it is an authentic piece of documented history.
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The First Thanksgiving, 1621
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Rather than a photograph, this is a color halftone reproduction of a painting by Jean Leon Gerome Ferris, an American artist known for scenes of early colonial life. It depicts the autumn harvest gathering at Plymouth in 1621, when the Pilgrims shared a feast with members of the Wampanoag people, an event often cited as the root of the national Thanksgiving holiday. The print was issued around 1932 by The Foundation Press of Cleveland, Ohio, and it shows how widely such idealized scenes circulated in schoolbooks and homes in the early twentieth century.
| Created / published | c. 1932 |
|---|---|
| Medium | photomechanical print, halftone, color |
| Notes | Jean Leon Gerome Ferris, artist. Cleveland, Ohio, The Foundation Press, Inc |
| Original scan | 3,237 × 2,128 px · prints to 11 × 7 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 11 |
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