Thanksgiving 1924
Crossword mania in prison.
Thanksgiving 1923
“Pumpkin Pie Cooked With Crust on the Top Astonishes Americans at London Dinner.”
Five and ten and fifteen
A Kresge window with a turkey dinner.
Vagaries of shopping (Premium edition)
Might someone have an idea why a store would be wiped out of Premium Saltines days before Thanksgiving? Is there some traditional dish that makes use of them?
Thanksgiving 1922
Vaudevillians on Blackwell’s Island.
Today’s Nancy
In today’s Nancy, repurposed Halloween decorations.
Thanksgiving 1921
Little beggars on the streets of Manhattan.
Thanksgiving 1920
“Thanksgiving Spirit Cheers Thousands: Turkey and ‘All the Fixings’ Served in Homes, Hospitals and Prisons”: from The New York Times.
Thanksgiving 1919
Nuts, a 1919 advertisement.
Thanksgiving 1918
A twenty-one-year-old man who from the age of nine spent every Thanksgiving in prison asks for a chance to reform.
Thanksgiving 1917
“Thanksgiving Food Never So Expensive: Turkeys Get Up to 50 Cents a Pound and Cranberries Bring 25 Cents a Quart.”
Thanksgiving 1916
At Sing Sing and Blackwell’s Island.
Waitin’ with Nancy
For turkey.
Thanksgiving 1915
In the Waldorf barn.
Orange Crate Art: Thanksgiving 1914
From The New York Times.
Thanksgiving 1913
Thanksgiving at the Ludlow Street Jail.
A Thanksgiving essay
Joyce Wadler, writing in The New York Times about a holiday, an illness, and mortality.
Thanksgiving 1912
In the Ludlow Street jail.
Thanksgiving 1911
Competitive eating, a century ago.
Thanksgiving at Sing Sing, 1908
From the New York Times, 100 years ago today
“Wishing you a happy Thanksgiving”
Postcard from 1917
Thanksgiving night
A letter, found in a book
Thanksgiving at Sing Sing
One hundred years ago: "Sing Sing Prisoners Merry, Convicts Give a Minstrel and Vaudeville Entertainment," New York Times , November 29, 19...