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Category: Vintage Photo Tuesday


Oct
2018

Vintage Photos-Celebrating Thanksgiving Part 2

categories: Thanksgiving, vintage holidays, vintage images, Vintage Photo Tuesday
1950s vintage thanksgiving card illustration.

This weekend it’s Canadian Thanksgiving and I’m off to hop around Ontario to spend time with my families. It’s going to be a super time of eating, drinking and spending time with family. I CAN’T WAIT!

So for today’s ‘Vintage Photo Tuesday‘ I’m doing a Part 2 of an original post I did in 2016 entitled ‘Celebrating Thanksgiving‘.

Enjoy friends and Happy Thanksgiving to all that celebrate!

October 2023 Update! Here are more vintage images from this series:

Vintage Photos of Thanksgiving Festivities 1920s-1950s

Giant turkey, formica table and family. -1950s vintage photo

1950s Thanksgiving photo vintage image of family with turkey in the kitchen. They are posing in front of a formica table in 1950s fashions.

Source: Etsy

Dinner is Served! Another fun Formica table, but this time in front of a wood panel wall (so vintage). -1950s photo.

1950s Thanksgiving table set for dinner on a formica table in front of wood panneling wall and a 1950s fridge.

Source: Etsy

I’m pretty sure giving a little kid a big bone with meat on it is NOT something parents do anymore (ahhh how times have changed). -1958 photo

1950s vintage photo of a toddler in a high chair eating a turkey leg from 1958.

Source: Etsy

Everyone gather around the turkey as it comes out of the oven. Quite a sight to see! -1960s photo

1960s vintage photo of a Black family, pulling out the turkey out of the oven for celebrating thanksgiving together.

Source: Pinterest

Please turn and smile at the camera before we eat. Thanks! 1960s photo (not a thanksgiving photo, but there is a turky so I’m using it).

1960s vintage photo of a family in January 1960 posing together in late 1950s fashions about to eat a turkey for dinner. Our woman in the front kind of looks like Queen Elizabeth II

Source: Etsy

November 28, 1940. “Pumpkin pies and Thanksgiving dinner at the home of Mr. Timothy Levy Crouch, a Rogerene Quaker living in Ledyard, Connecticut.” Photo by Jack Delano for the Farm Security Administration.

1940s vintage photo: Pies in Repose November 28, 1940. Pumpkin pies and Thanksgiving dinner at the home of Mr. Timothy Levy Crouch, a Rogerene Quaker living in Ledyard, Connecticut. Photo by Jack Delano

1928 Thanksgiving themed window display of Universal gas ranges, 55 Adelaide Street East, Toronto.

1920s vintage photo of a 1928 Thanksgiving themed window display of Universal gas ranges, 55 Adelaide Street East Toronto Archives Fonds 1034, Item 498

Source: Toronto Archives-Fonds 1034, Item 498

Preparing Thanksgiving food baskets for the needy, 1954.

1950s vintage photo: Preparing Thanksgiving food baskets for the needy, 1954.

Source: Minnesota Historical Society

Camp Fire Girls setting the table in 1949.

1940s vintage photo: Camp Fire Girls setting the table, 1949 vintage thanksgiving photo

Source: San Francisco Historical Photograph Collection

Patterns galore! Another NOT Thanksgiving photo, but I loved it so I wanted to share it. -1955 photo.

1950s vintage photo. 1955 Vintage Christmas dinner photo of a family sitting at the table mother in an apron.

The hungry guests are circling, better hurry up with the turkey! Photo circa 1950s. 

1950s vintage photo of an older woman getting ready to serve the Thanksgiving turkey in her 1950s kitchen.

Source: eBay

Side eye from mom to her sassy daughter in the most colourful 1950s dining room.

1950s vintage photo of a family sitting around their Thanksgiving dinner table in 1950s fashions.

Source: Pinterest

Thank you for stopping by friends!

1940s Thanksgiving card vintage thanksgiving
Source: eBay

Other Vintage Thanksgiving Posts:

Liz


Aug
2018

Vintage Photos of Student Life 1920s-1950s Part 2

categories: Back to School, vintage images, Vintage Photo Tuesday

The start of a new school year is quickly approaching so I thought I would continue a Vintage Photo Tuesday I shared last year on “Student Life” from the 1920s-1950s. This grouping of photos for this round is from Wayne State University (Michigan, USA) and focuses on the 1940s-1950s.

Let the Back to School Vintage Photo Party begin!

Vintage Photos of Student Life

1920s-1950s Part 2

Registration day! No computers to do this online for these students, just good old fashion inkwells and pens -Circa 1940s.

1940s vintage photo of Student College Life.
Source: Wayne State University

1940s vintage photo War Bond/Savings Bond Drive-1945.

1940s vintage photo of a War Bond/Savings Bond Drive-1945 vintage photo of student life
Source: Wayne State University

1950s vintagae photo of a Frosh Board game that features a man climbing a rope ladder to reach a woman. It advertises the prize of “Win a Kiss.”

1950s vintage photo of student life, A Frosh Board game that features a man climbing a rope ladder to reach a woman. It advertises the prize of "Win a Kiss."
Source: Wayne State University

1940s / 1950s vintage student life photo. Taking a break from the daily grind of homework for soda fountain drinks with friends. Hello awesome picnic basket blouse!

Having drinks at a soda fountain -Late 1940s early 1950s student life vintage photo
Source: Wayne State University

“Lets talk about that school project we have to work on”. Friends hanging out at school cafeteria in the 1950s at Wayne State University.

Friends hanging out at school cafeteria in the 1950s at Wayne State University. Vintage Photo
Wayne State University

1940s Vintage Student life Photo. “If we stare at the fireplace long enough, a fire will happen”. 1940’s Students gathered around a very regal fireplace.

Group of university students at Wayne State University gathered around a fireplace in the 1940s. 1940s Vintage Student life Photo
Source: Wayne State University

1950s Photo: A Puppy & Wayne State Lettermen Sweaters make for one adorable photo opportunity.

Vintage of 2 men in Lettermen sweaters from Wayne State University hanging out in the 1940s. -1940s vintage student life photo.
Source: Wayne State University

The Men’s Glee Club-1957 photo.

Further Reading: School Clubs – Vintage Photos & Back To School: Vintage School Clubs Part 2

1950s vintage photo of the Glee Club at Wayne State University
Source: Wayne State University

1950s Photo: 10 finalists for Homecoming Queen. I wonder which lovely lady won?

1950's Homecoming queens. Vintage photo of the 10 finalists in fantastic 1950s fashions and saddle shoes.
Source: Wayne State University

Go Team Go! WSU Cheerleaders in the 1950s.

Further Reading: Cheerleading-The Vintage Edition

1950's vintage Photo of 3 Cheerleaders at Wayne State University
Source: Wayne State University

A mixed formal/Halloween costume dance. Seems only one person dressed up for this 1950s party.

1950s vintage photo of a college Halloween dance featuring some in halloween costumes and the rest in 1950s eveningwear.
Source: Wayne State University

“X over Y equals the sum of all it’s parts. Do you have it yet boys?”. 1940s/ 1950s vintage photo.

1940s 1950s Student Life Vintage Photos from University featuring a young woman teaching 3 men a topic on something from school.
Source: Wayne State University

That final photo brings us to a close on student life at Wayne State University. I hope you had a fantastic time browsing the photos and I think I’m going to keep it up focusing on different schools all over North America for future VPTs. Would you like to see more friends? Share your thoughts in the comments below.

Further Reading:

Liz