Science Source Stock Photo - NYC, Thanksgiving Ragamuffins, 1910s

NYC, Thanksgiving Ragamuffins, 1910s

Description: Thanksgiving is a holiday celebrated in the United States on the fourth Thursday in November. In New York City, people would dress up in fanciful masks and costumes and roam the streets in merry-making mobs. By the beginning of the 20th century, these mobs had morphed into "ragamuffin parades" consisting mostly of children dressed as "ragamuffins" in costumes of old and mismatched adult clothes and with deliberately smudged faces, but by the late 1950s the tradition had vanished entirely. Photographed by Bain News Service, circa 1910-15.

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Library of Congress/Science Source

Unique identifier: SS2712919

Legacy Identifier: JC7546

Type: Image

Size: 3936px × 4500px (~50 MB)

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