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File:Thanksgiving_at_Plymouth,_1925,_Brownscombe.jpgShrine of the first U.S. Thanksgiving in 1619 at Berkeley Plantation in Charles City County, VirginiaFile:Wampanoag2.jpgThe Puritan by Augustus St. Gaudens, 1904. The "buckle hat" atop the sculpture's head, now associated with the Pilgrims in pop culture, was fictional; Pilgrims never wore such an item, nor has any such hat ever existed as a serious piece of apparel. The First Thanksgiving 1621, oil on canvas by Jean Leon Gerome Ferris (1899). The painting shows common misconceptions about the event which persist to modern times: Pilgrims did not wear such outfits, nor did they eat at a dinner table, and the Wampanoag are dressed in the style of Native Americans from the Great Plains.[35]Thomas Nast's vision of immigrants seated in harmony around America's Thanksgiving table mirrors Sara Josepha Hale's desire to Americanize immigrant populations through the adoption of the holiday.Thanksgiving pageants were popular forms of "edutainment" in the early to mid 20th centuryFile:George_Washington's_October_3,_1789,_Thanksgiving_Day_Proclamation._-_NARA_-_299956.jpgFile:George_Washington's_Thanksgiving_Proclamation,_1795.pngAfter Winslow Homer, Thanksgiving in Camp, published 1862, National Gallery of ArtSketch by Alfred Waud of Thanksgiving in camp (of General Louis Blenker) during the U.S. Civil War in 1861 Home to Thanksgiving, lithograph by Currier and Ives (1867)Hotel menu from 1898 for Thanksgiving"Uncle Sam's Thanksgiving Dinner: Come one come all Free and equal" Thomas Nast cartoon promoting the passage of the 15th amendment Servicemen eating a Thanksgiving dinner after the end of World War I (1918)

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