Good Wishes for Thanksgiving Day, ear of corn postcard – Vintage Print
(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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This rare vintage postcard captures Good Wishes for Thanksgiving Day, ear of corn postcard in remarkable detail. It is part of the Snapshots of the Past archive, gathered over 25 years of research.
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Good Wishes for Thanksgiving Day, ear of corn postcard
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Few holiday cards from the early 1900s were as oddly constructed as this one: a giant ear of corn, its kernels and husk drawn to fill the whole frame, with the holiday greeting printed across it. Thanksgiving postcards like this were a popular way to send seasonal wishes by mail, and makers often leaned on harvest imagery such as corn, pumpkins and cornucopias to signal abundance and gratitude. The period saw a boom in picture postcards, when cheap color printing made them a common and inexpensive form of greeting. Cards that turned a single crop into a whole design, as this one does, show how the harvest holiday was tied to the farm and the autumn table in the popular imagination of the time.
| Original scan | 4,267 × 2,725 px · prints to 14 × 9 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | 2051079122_2524c87473_b |
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