Thanksgiving Greetings postcard with turkey and horseshoe – Vintage 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 horseshoe. It is part of the Snapshots of the Past archive, gathered over 25 years of research.
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Thanksgiving Greetings postcard with turkey and horseshoe
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A turkey and a horseshoe share the frame on this Thanksgiving greetings postcard, a pairing that signals good fortune alongside harvest-table abundance. Holiday postcards like this one boomed in the United States in the early 1900s, when cheap color printing and a national postal system made it easy to mail a few cents' worth of seasonal cheer to family and friends. Artists of the era often drew on folk symbols such as horseshoes, which were believed to bring luck, and combined them with the turkey as a emblem of the autumn feast. Look closely at the lettering and border, which show the decorative style that made these cards collectible long after they were sent.
| Original scan | 664 × 1,024 px |
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| Reference | 1953768614_961a8260a3_b |
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