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A Slice of Pie

by The Library of Congress

As American Thanksgiving approaches, does your mind turn to pie? Enjoy a slice through images from the Prints & Photographs Division.

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Pies and paper pie plates. (LOC)

Puts finishing touches on 30 pound cherry pie for president. Washington, D.C., July 6. Nineteen year old Jean Halmond, Queen of Michigan's National Cherry Festival to be held in Traverse City, gives a final once-over to the 30 pound cherry pie which she l

Array of pies for sale at the "Back to Church Sunday" festival, organized by the nearby St. Paul's Episcopal Church, on the grounds of the New Hampshire capitol (or state house, as New Hampshirites call it) in Concord, New Hampshire's capital city (LOC)

Amish shoo-fly pies, made from a gooey molasses-based filling and sometimes topped with chocolate cream. Lancaster, Pennsylvania (LOC)

Lloyd J. Harriss Pies (LOC)

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

A pie eating contest (LOC)

Epping, North Dakota. Pie and coffee served by the ladies of the WCTU (Woman's Christian Temperance Union) at meeting of women to promote the sale of defense stamps and bonds (LOC)

Cakes and pies line the tables at a family reunion in Mayodan,North Carolina (LOC)

Conn. Pie Co., Ford truck (LOC)

Making pies. Rolling crusts and filling them at bakery at San Angelo, Texas (LOC)

Co-op store (Segregees), Manzanar Relocation Center (LOC)

Puck Thanksgiving 1903 (LOC)

[Cooks with food (turkey, pies, and apples) on platters], 12/27/22 (LOC)

[Woman with pie at White House, Washington, D.C.] (LOC)

Spring pulpwood drive on the Brown Company timber holdings in Maine. Mid-afternoon "lunch" by Long Pond where woodsmen are sluicing. On the menu that day: roast pork and dressing, boiled potatoes, turnips, baked beans, hot cakes, hot biscuits, bread, butt

Getting ready to serve the barbeque dinner at the Pie Town, New Mexico Fair (LOC)

Pies at pie supper in Muskogee County, Oklahoma. See general caption number 24 (LOC)

Waitresses and their goodies at Norske's Nook Cafe, Osseo, Wisconsin, where sinfully rich pies are baked (LOC)