Thanksgiving Greetings turkey postcard with flag and basket – Antique Print
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Thanksgiving Greetings turkey postcard with flag and basket comes to life in this vintage postcard, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It is part of the Snapshots of the Past archive, gathered over 25 years of research.
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Thanksgiving Greetings turkey postcard with flag and basket
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Few holiday postcards from the early 1900s carry as much patriotic iconography as this one, which pairs a plump turkey with a flag and a basket of harvest goods. Thanksgiving was still a relatively new national observance in that era, having been proclaimed a federal holiday by Abraham Lincoln in 1863 and fixed on the final Thursday of November by Franklin Roosevelt in 1939. Postcards like this one, printed in large numbers and mailed across the country, helped turn the holiday into a shared symbol of home, abundance and civic pride. The flag's inclusion is worth noticing, since it shows how the day's message of gratitude was often blended with national loyalty.
| Original scan | 516 × 824 px |
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| Reference | Thanksgiving (82) |
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