10 Historic Thanksgiving Celebrations

Happy Thanksgiving, DPLA friends! No matter how you choose to celebrate, we hope it’s a good one. In celebration, a selection of the best Thanksgiving day photos from the DPLA, showing how American families have celebrated for more than 100 years.

	Children gather round their mother, cooking the Thanksgiving turkey, 1951.
	Thanksgiving at the Home for the Friendless, New York.
	Georgia Tech football players on the bench at the Thanksgiving Day game, 1945.
	Salvation Army Thanksgiving, 1916.
	U.S. troops eat Thanksgiving dinner, 1981.
	The Golden Age Group’s Thanksgiving dinner, 1955.
	FDR carving the Thanksgiving turkey, 1933.
	Cooks, with the turkeys they prepared, for a “military Thanksgiving,” 1918.
	“The Car-Driver’s Thanksgiving,” 1877.
	Claremont California residents dressed as pilgrims for Thanksgiving, 1958.