Thanksgiving Greetings postcard with children at a turkey dinner – Historic 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 Thanksgiving Greetings postcard with children at a turkey dinner. It is part of the Snapshots of the Past archive, gathered over 25 years of research.
The framed print arrives ready to hang; the unframed option suits custom framing. It brings character to any room and makes a memorable gift. Free shipping in the lower 48 states. Snapshots of the Past has been bringing history to the wall since 2001, for tens of thousands of customers worldwide.
Thanksgiving Greetings postcard with children at a turkey dinner
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Holiday postcards like this one were a booming trade in the early twentieth century, when cheap color printing let card makers sell millions of greetings to families who mailed them across the country. Scenes of children gathered around a roast turkey were a favorite theme, because they tied the Thanksgiving table to ideas of home, abundance and youth. A card of this kind was meant to be read at a glance: a cheerful message on the front, a sentimental picture that needed no caption to explain itself. Today such cards are valued as everyday evidence of how Americans pictured the holiday and its family rituals.
| Original scan | 2,400 × 1,577 px · prints to 8 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | Thanksgiving (116) |
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