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IMAGine History

Pumpkin Pies

Pumpkin pies and Thanksgiving dinner at the home of Mr. Timothy Levy Crouch, a Rogerine Quaker living in Ledyard, Connecticut

Photographer: Delano, Jack
Date: Nov. 1940