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Thanksgiving: President Lincoln's Proclamation
- Date of Work
- 1864
- Medium
- Proclamation
- Credit
- National Archives and Records Administration
Thanksgiving: President Lincoln's Proclamation
Abraham Lincoln's Thanksgiving Day Proclamation of October 3, 1863.
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