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Thanksgiving Photos From 'Life' Magazine
Clockwise from top left: President Dwight D. Eisenhower carves a turkey, children in the U.K. eating Thanksgiving dinner, Thanksgiving at Byrd Station, foreign students experience the holiday.
More holiday images from the Life Photo Archive on Google. From military children celebrating Thanksgiving in the United Kingdom to Thanksgiving dinner in Antarctica at Byrd Station in 1964, it doesn't appear this holiday's feast has changed. While the clothing is different and most of the photos are in black and white, the people and the food are the same. Families are still apt to welcome friends and foreigners to their tables, all the while sticking to the basic turkey and various accompanying side dishes.
The image of Dwight D. Eisenhower's Thanksgiving meal in 1952 had me imagining what President-elect Barack Obama might have this year and if, someday, pictures of him carving a turkey will be in historical archives. And, what if we ever elect a vegetarian president? What would he or she carve?