Snapshots of the Past

Thanksgiving – Vintage Wall Art

Thanksgiving — historic image
Thanksgiving. Historic image from the Thanksgiving collection.

(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

Description

Step back in time with Thanksgiving, a historic image rich in period detail. Drawn from the Snapshots of the Past archive, it is an authentic piece of documented history.

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Thanksgiving

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Thanksgiving postcards were a staple of the early twentieth century, when the holiday was still settling into its fixed place on the national calendar. Cards like this one, which carries only the title "Thanksgiving," would have been mailed as cheerful greetings, often decorated with harvest imagery such as turkeys, corn, pumpkins, and autumn leaves. Such postcards were inexpensive and widely sold in the years before the First World War, when the picture postcard craze was at its height. Their bright colors and stylized scenes offer a window into how families marked the holiday and how it was pictured in popular culture.

Original scan800 × 525 px
ReferenceThanksgiving (55)

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