Thanksgiving Day colonial family dinner postcard – Antique Wall Art
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A window into the past: Thanksgiving Day colonial family dinner postcard, preserved in this vintage postcard. It is part of the Snapshots of the Past archive, gathered over 25 years of research.
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Thanksgiving Day colonial family dinner postcard
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A holiday postcard in the Thanksgiving group, this one shows a colonial-era family seated around a laden dinner table, a scene that reflects how early 20th-century printers pictured the holiday's origins. Thanksgiving postcards like this were produced in large numbers, especially in the early decades of the century, when the national holiday was being formally established and mass-produced cards offered a cheap way to send seasonal greetings. Their imagery leaned heavily on pilgrim and colonial motifs, which were often more romanticized than historically precise. Looking closely, the costumes, table settings and domestic details tell you as much about how Americans of that era imagined their past as about the 17th-century households they depicted.
| Original scan | 490 × 812 px |
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| Reference | Thanksgiving (79) |
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