From the Great Depression to World War II - Photos from the American Memory Collection

Showcasing some of the 160,000 images taken between 1935 and 1944 by government-hired photographers. (If you were to look at 100 of them per day, every day, you'd need more than four years to view them all).

Nov 26, 2008

Anticipation

to locate this image on the American Memory website use search terms CROUCH and THANKSGIVING

A younger son of the Timothy Levy Crouch family peeks into a pot pre-Thanksigving dinner in 1940 Ledyard, Connecticut.

Note the wood-fired stove. Other shots show the boy's father fetching firewood for the event.

Photo by Jack Delano

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[American Memory link]

to locate this image, use search terms: Crouch, Thanksgiving

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