Photo From the Attic: Turkey in a Box

• Nov. 19, 2009, Midnight

Two deliverymen lift a large crate containing a turkey and carry it into the White House of President Warren Harding in November 1921. “Foremost among our blessings is the return of peace, and the approach to normal ways again,” Harding wrote in his Thanksgiving proclamation that year, as the country recovered from its involvement in the Great War.