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Title: Thanksgiving Costume Party, Farmington State Normal School, 1917

Contributed by: Mantor Library at UMF

Date: 1917

Location: Farmington

Media: black and white photograph

Title: WACs at Thanksgiving, Dow Field, Bangor, 1944

Contributed by: Bangor Public Library

Date: 1944

Location: Bangor

Media: Photograph

Title: Thanksgiving in Turner, 1923

Contributed by: Turner Museum and Historical Society

Date: 1923

Location: Turner

Media: Photograph

Giving Thanks

Cultures from the ancient Greeks and Chinese to contemporary societies have set aside time to give thanks, especially for the harvest. In 1941, the United States set a permanent date for the observance.