The Turkey: AN AMERICAN STORY

Illustrations follow page 66.

Turkey illustration from Bernardino de Sahagún, author of the Historia General de las Cosas de la Nueva España (General History of the Things of New Spain). (Author’s Collection) “Shooting the Christmas Turkey” (date unknown). (Author’s Collection) Thanksgiving-Day among the Puritan Fathers in New England, Harper’s Weekly (1870). (Author’s Collection) J. W. Ehninger, Thanksgiving—a Thanksgiving Dinner among the Puritans, Harper’s Weekly (1867). (Author’s Collection) W. S. L. Jewett, Thanksgiving—a Thanksgiving Dinner among Their Descendants, Harper’s Weekly (1867). (Author’s Collection) Uncle Sam’s Thanksgiving Dinner by Thomas Nast, Harper’s Weekly 13 (1869). (Author’s Collection) J. W. Ehninger, Preparing for Thanksgiving, Harper’s Weekly (1868). (Author’s Collection) Trap for Wild Turkeys from Turkeys and How to Grow Them edited by Herbert Myrick (1897). (Author’s Collection) “Calling” Wild Turkeys from Turkeys and How to Grow Them edited by Herbert Myrick (1897). (Author’s Collection) The Prize Bronze Turkey from Turkeys and How to Grow Them edited by Herbert Myrick (1897). (Author’s Collection) Narragansett Turkeys from Turkeys and How to Grow Them edited by Herbert Myrick (1897). (Author’s Collection) Buff Turkey Cock from Turkeys and How to Grow Them edited by Herbert Myrick (1897). (Author’s Collection) Turkeys and the Pilgrims appeared on postcards around 1900. Some postcards incorporated patriotic symbols, including the American flag, the stars and stripes, and Uncle Sam (ca. 1900). (Author’s Collection) A holiday warning, around 1905. (Author’s Collection) Another postcard equating the American eagle with the symbol of Thanksgiving (ca. 1905). (Author’s Collection) Thanksgiving Dinner at the Five Points Ladies’ Home Mission of the Methodist Episcopal Church, Harper’s Weekly (1865). (Author’s Collection) Ornithology from the presidential campaign of 1852 that pitted the Whig Winfield Scott against the Democrat Franklin Pierce. (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division) ...