Thanksgiving Greetings postcard with turkey and wheat field – Antique Wall Art
(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
Description
Few images capture their era like this vintage postcard of Thanksgiving Greetings postcard with turkey and wheat field. It comes from the Snapshots of the Past collection, curated over 25 years for its historical value.
Order it framed and ready to hang, or unframed to match a frame you already love. Perfect for a home, office, library or classroom wall, and a gift with a story behind it. Free shipping in the lower 48 states. Snapshots of the Past has been bringing history to the wall since 2001, for tens of thousands of customers worldwide.
Thanksgiving Greetings postcard with turkey and wheat field
Order a print
Thank you. Your order went through, and a receipt is on its way by email.
Secure checkout · SSL encryptedPowered by Stripe and PayPal
Free shipping in the lower 48 states. The checkout page shows the picture, size and price before you pay.
Few holiday postcards capture the early twentieth-century harvest mood as directly as this one, where a plump turkey stands against a golden wheat field under a greeting printed across the card. Thanksgiving postcards like this were mass-produced in the years around 1900 to 1920, when the picture postcard was at the height of its popularity and inexpensive color lithography made seasonal sentiments easy to mail to family and friends. Cards of this type often paired farm imagery with the idea of abundance and gratitude, reflecting a national holiday that by then was widely observed in autumn. Notice how the bird is shown as a symbol of the harvest rather than as a dinner dish, a common choice in cards of the period.
| Original scan | 673 × 1,024 px |
|---|---|
| Reference | 2050296611_63d8bb5b8c_b |
More from the Thanksgiving collection
Snapshots of the Past helps heritage brands, museums, historians and storytellers tell stories with history: historic prints, image licensing and historical storytelling drawn from more than 25 years of research and curation.
