Thanksgiving rolls around once a year but at the National Archives you can tag our Thanksgiving related records every day. Our sample set is a little heavy on the turkey, so pass up dessert and tag a few records instead! Here are some of my favorite images:
Look at her perfect form. To achieve the perfect baste, bend at the waist!
Clearly, these fellas like a little leg!
Looks like this turkey received his pardon a bit too late.
- Photograph of President Truman receiving a turkey from Sen. Olin Johnston of South Carolina in the Oval Office, as Colonel Lewis Jackson looks on., 11/25/1946 (NAID 199535)
More Thanksgiving records can be found here.
Have a wonderful Thanksgiving!