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features photographs and discussions, poems, proclamations, and other material related to the holiday. (Library of Congress)
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On September 28, 1863, magazine editor Sarah Hale wrote a letter to President Abraham Lincoln encouraging him to proclaim a national Thanksgiving Day. This was part of Hale's 17-year campaign to establish Thanksgiving Day as a national holiday. |
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