Category: Thanksgiving

Image of an ornate clock showing 2:05 with sculpted male figures sitting on each side of the clock face

Mystery Photos…Solved!

December 17, 2020

Cary O’Dell at the Library’s National Recording Registry runs our Mystery Photo Contest. His most recent post, a Thanksgiving Edition, included 14 of his last 30 mystery pictures. Here’s his update. Greetings all! Thanks to your hard work over the past month, we solved five of 14 Mystery Photos posted just before Thanksgiving. That’s remarkable, …

Posted in: Mystery Photo Contest, Photos, Thanksgiving

A “Thanksgiving Hymn” for Lincoln

November 23, 2020

Posted by: Neely Tucker

After the Union victory at Gettysburg in the Civil War in 1863, President Abraham Lincoln asked the nation set aside the fourth Thursday of November as a national holiday of thanksgiving. Congress made it official in 1870.

Posted in: Abraham Lincoln, Civil War, Music, Rare Book and Special Collections, Thanksgiving, U.S. Presidents