Best Thanksgiving Wishes postcard with pilgrims and turkey, 1909 – Vintage Print
(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 Best Thanksgiving Wishes postcard with pilgrims and turkey, 1909. It is part of the Snapshots of the Past archive, gathered over 25 years of research.
Framed, it is ready for the wall; unframed, it is ready for the frame you choose. A fine choice for anyone who loves history, and a gift that gets noticed. Free shipping in the lower 48 states. Snapshots of the Past, founded in 2001, has served tens of thousands of customers worldwide.
Best Thanksgiving Wishes postcard with pilgrims and turkey, 1909
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Unlike the sober paintings of the Mayflower colonists that hang in many schools, this 1909 postcard is a holiday greeting, its pilgrims and turkey drawn for a sender to mail to a friend or relative. Such cards were a popular form of mass-produced ephemera in the early twentieth century, when postal rates were low and holiday imagery was printed in bright colors. The card reflects how Thanksgiving had by then become a settled national custom, with the 1621 harvest feast at Plymouth recast as a symbol of gratitude and family togetherness. Its cheerful cartoon style shows how the story was being softened for home and hearth.
| Original scan | 676 × 1,024 px |
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| Reference | 1952960003_4f3c342194_b |
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