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Shooting Turkeys for Thanksgiving - Day
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Colored print of an outdoor scene of a group of men and children with long rifles standing together in front of a large building and under a tree, preparing to shoot turkeys in the distant snow-covered field. Another group of similar men engage in the same activity in the background. Everyone is wearing tall bots and dressed in mid 19th Century outdoor clothing.
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Credit lineShooting Turkeys for Thanksgiving - Day. after 1862. Childs, John. National Museum of American History, Harry T. Peters "America on Stone" Lithography Collection. CC0.
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