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Thanksgiving Through The Years!

      Thanksgiving Day has long been celebrated as a family tradition. A day of giving thanks to God for all our blessings. In fact, its roots date back to the early 1600s. To commemorate this special day here's a trip back to days gone by with 400 years of Thanksgiving photos. Enjoy! :)
Shangrala's Thanksgiving Through The Years
This picture depicts settlers and Wampanoag Indians in 1621 sharing a harvest feast, a meal that is said to herald our modern day Thanksgiving feast.

Shangrala's Thanksgiving Through The Years
Union troops in 1864 of 5th and 9th Corps receive Thanksgiving rations during the US civil war.

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Children take part in a 1910 Thanksgiving pageant.

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New York City hosted men in service and cared for every man in uniform on Thanksgiving in 1918.

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A Thanksgiving Day Parade, held in the late 1920s. The Fish Balloon was 35 feet long, and the Tiger Balloon behind it was 60 feet long.

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These U.S. troops in London threw a party for two hundred British children at the U.S. headquarters in 1942.

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A mother, father and young girl sit down to enjoy their 1945 Thanksgiving dinner.

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In 1950 a grandfather holds his grandchildren while their grandmother removes a roast turkey from the oven.

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Turkey has been a long standing tradition in Thanksgiving. As this woman in 1960 takes a roasted turkey out of the oven, her family eagerly watches.

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This photo in 1980 depicts a kindergarten Thanksgiving Day reenactment.

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Here in 1983, Mary Gross and Jim Belushi in a Thanksgiving Day skit on Saturday Night Live.

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US President Bill Clinton stands with the annual Thanksgiving turkey in 1998 as he pardons the bird.

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US President George W. Bush holds a Thanksgiving turkey for US troops stationed at Baghdad International Airport 27 November, 2003 in Baghdad, Iraq. Under unprecedented secrecy, the President was flown without public knowledge from Waco, Texas, to Washington, DC, where he changed planes then onto Iraq where he spent two and a half hours on the ground to salute US troops on the US Thanksgiving Holiday.
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In the Macy's 2005 Thanksgiving Day Parade, an Uncle Sam balloon makes its way down Broadway.

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US Vice President Joseph Biden in 2012 hosts wounded warriors for an early Thanksgiving Dinner at his residence.

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In 2014 during the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, the Radio City Rockettes perform.




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