Thursday, November 22, 2012

Thanksgiving 1912


[“Thanksgiving Cheer Provided for All: Vaudeville Entertainments with Turkey Feasts Lighten the Day for the City’s Charges. The Boy Scouts Parade. Light Fall of Snow in the Morning Gives New York the First ‘White’ Thanksgiving in Years.” New York Times, November 29, 1912.]

Happy Thanksgiving.

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Doing time at the Ludlow Street Jail (Ephemeral New York)

2 comments:

  1. Is that debtor's prison for men who don't pay their required alimony?

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  2. Yes. The Ephemeral New York post has the background.

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