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Mark Hanna is about to carve a large turkey labeled “Presidency” resting on a gold platter labeled “Sound Money Vote.” Newly elected president William McKinley is sitting at the head of the table, looking heavenward, and the White House is visible through a window behind Hanna. Caption: “For what we are about to receive, may the Lord make us truly thankful.”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1896-11-25
A young boy sharpens a knife as he stands before a large turkey with its feet in stocks labeled 1910; the turkey is perspiring.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1910-11-23
Uncle Sam, John Bull, and Puck gather around a table raising glasses in a toast to friendship, or alliance. Also seated at the table is a female figure, possibly representing Germany, who may be participating in the toast as well. At far left, a man enters with a large turkey on a platter; and on the right, “Russia” and “France”, uninvited, peer around columns. Caption: Puck–Let us give thanks for the friendly understanding among the Saxon nations. It is more potent for peace than any Peace Congress!
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1899-12-06
Print shows William Jennings Bryan chasing a turkey labeled “Nov. Election.” The tail feathers of the turkey are labeled with the states of the union, and Bryan has managed to pull out the one labeled “Nebraska.”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1899-12-06
The British lion and the Russian bear threaten a turkey dressed as a Turk. Caption: England and Russia, together – “Be my ally, or I’ll give you the worst thrashing you ever had in your life!”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1885-04-22
Uncle Sam, Columbia, and Puck sit at a table, ready to enjoy a Thanksgiving turkey dinner in a gallery with paintings on the wall in the background. Uncle Sam is gesturing toward these paintings, which depict Irish uprisings and unrest in England, volcanoes in Java, earthquakes in Italy, “Cholera” as the grim reaper in Egypt, French colonialism, anarchy in Spain, German militarism, and Alexander III, Emperor of Russia, standing on the body of a peasant in a painting titled “Russian Reform.” On the far right, at a dock labeled “U.S. Navy,” a ship in disrepair leans to one side. A bulldog gnaws on a bone labeled “New York” beneath a bench on the left. Caption: Uncle Sam – “Well, we seem to be getting along a little better than the rest of the world, and if we can’t be thankful for all that we have, we may at least be thankful that there are some things we haven’t.”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1883-11-28
President Cleveland stands at the head of a table with his cabinet officers around the table at placemats labeled “Bayard, Manning, Garland, Whitney, Lamar, Endicott, [and] Vilas,” as Puck delivers a large turkey on a platter labeled “With Compliments of all Good Citizens.” A notice on the wall in the background states “Public Office is a Public Trust.” The centerpiece on the table is labeled “Prosperity.”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1885-11-25
A horde of lawyers uses various cutting implements to carve a large turkey labeled “Income Tax Litigation” and hauls away pieces for themselves.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1913-11-19
A sleeping, bloated man labeled “Protected Monopolist” shies away from a turkey labeled “Income Tax” that appears to have risen from the remains of the Thanksgiving Day dinner labeled “High Tariff Plunder.” Caption: A natural result of gluttony.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1909-11-17
A large turkey, a jug of alcohol, and a pie have their feet locked in stocks, while a long line of pilgrims dances around them.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1913-11-19
Mary Elizabeth Whiton Washburn writes a letter of condolence to Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt after the death of her son Quentin Roosevelt. Washburn remembers when Quentin called on her as a boy and conversed about turkeys and their price. Washburn is glad to have known Quentin.
Sagamore Hill National Historic Site
1918-09-05
Full color cartoon with a large turkey in the middle. Interspersed on and around the turkey are cartoons about world and national politics, each using a turkey or a reference to a turkey. In the top center is Theodore Roosevelt riding a turkey with a sword and “Popularity” sash.
Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural National Historic Site
1903-11
Theodore Roosevelt wields an ax and is about to chop the head off a turkey labeled “Flim-Flam Finance” on the chopping block. The turkey’s feathers are labeled “Worthless Collateral, Wild Cat Bank, Fake Bonds, Worthless Securities, [and] Fake Stocks.” A diminutive man labeled “Small Investor” is standing in front of the chopping block, also holding an axe. Caption: For what he is about to receive, let us be truly thankful.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1907-11-13
On the left is a pile of over-sized items that are used to fill leisure time, such as golf clubs, a shotgun, a football, a riding crop, a theater mask, and a horn, and also a large turkey, celery, cranberries, and a pumpkin. On the right, in the shadow of these material goods, is a diminutive church, dark and possibly empty.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1912-11-20
Uncle Sam offers a bunch of celery as a bouquet to a turkey, wearing a woman’s dance costume, dancing on a stage.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1912-11-20
A man labeled “Trusts” sits at a table spread with large dishes of food for a Thanksgiving Day feast, including a large turkey labeled “Restraint of Trade” and a bowl of soup, from which he is eating, labeled “Competition.” The soup sits on a note signed by “Taft, M.D.” advising the man that he “must go on a strict diet [and] cut out all rich food.” Thanksgiving Number.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1911-11-22