Vintage Photo Tuesday: Celebrating Thanksgiving with vintage images

If you have been following my blog for some time you know that I have a love of vintage photos and will share them on here as much as I can. Because of this, I have a new series for my blog that will appear every Tuesday: Vintage Photo Tuesday.

Today’s photos will showcase Thanksgiving gatherings as this coming weekend is the Canadian Holiday (Yay Turkey!).

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

1940s thanksgiving illustration of a man and woman eating a turkey together and breaking the wish bone.

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Vintage Thanksgiving Photos 1920s-1950s

A real 1950s Canadian Thanksgiving family gathering. The gentlemen on the right can’t WAIT to eat it as he is clearly not caring about the photo being taken.

1950s vintage photo of a 1950s family sitting around the Thanksgiving dinner table getting ready to carve the turkey.

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It takes 3 to make the Turkey just right. -1950s photo.

1950s vintage photo of a man and woman taking out the turkey of the oven.

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Time for dessert! What a fun photo from 1958 of a large family enjoying their dessert after their big Thanksgiving meal.

1950s vintage photo of a 1958 Thanksgiving family gathering featuring 1950s fashions and a table full of food.

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Who needs forks when you have turkey legs? -1940s photo.

Late 1940s vintage photo of a woman and a young girl eating turkey legs during thanksgiving dinner.

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Proud as punch that the turkey cooked! -1950s photo.

1950s vintage photo of two women in 1950s dresses posing with their Thanksgiving turkey they just took out of the oven.

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The higher the better when carving the turkey. -1950s photo.

1950s vintage photo of a man carving a turkey on thanksgiving.

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Kenny and the ‘Neck’. I adore Kenny’s mom’s 1950s style (her cat eye glasses are the best!).

1950s vintage photo of a mom and her son on thanksgiving in front of the turkey. The kid has the neck. The mom is wearing cat eye glasses.

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Tiny tables for big turkeys.

1950s vintage photo of a family carving their Thanksgiving Turkey.

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Thanksgiving is all about being with the family in the fish room.

1950s vintage photo of a family sitting in a room with fish decor on the wall for Thanksgiving dinner in 1950s fashions.

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Other Vintage Thanksgiving Posts:

Happy Thanksgiving to all my Canadian Friends! And in another month to all my American friends!

Liz