Pumpkin: The Curious History of an American Icon
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    • Just Another Squash: 12,000 BCE to 1600
    • From Pumpkin Beer to Pumpkin Pie: 1600 to 1799
    • The Making of a Rural New England Icon: 1800 to 1860
    • The Pumpkin and the Nation: 1861 to 1899
    • Americans Celebrate the Fall Harvest with Pumpkins: 1900 to 1945
    • The Changing Nature of Pumpkins: 1946 to the Present
    • The Changing Nature of American Rural Economies: 1946 to the Present
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Jack Delano (American, 1914-1994) “Pumpkin Pies and Thanksgiving Dinner at the Home of Mr. Timothy Levy Crouch, a Rogerine Quaker Living in Ledyard, Connecticut,” 1940. B&W film. Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, FSA/OWI Collection LC-USF34-T01-042712-D. 

Eating Pumpkin Pie 

The photographer Jack Delano captured an image of the Crouch family sitting down to Thanksgiving dinner in a mirror that hangs above a sideboard of desserts, including two pumpkin pies.  Placing the portrait above the pies, the photographer inculcates the family with a sense of well-being and old-fashioned goodness.  The pumpkin pies in particular cast this as a distinctly American scene. 





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