Thanksgiving Greetings postcard with turkey, fruit and flag shield – Historic Reproduction
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A window into the past: Thanksgiving Greetings postcard with turkey, fruit and flag shield, preserved in this vintage postcard. Drawn from the Snapshots of the Past archive, it is an authentic piece of documented history.
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Thanksgiving Greetings postcard with turkey, fruit and flag shield
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Lead with the turkey, fruit and flag shield, which tie this card to the patriotic side of the holiday rather than the harvest-only scenes found on many others. Early twentieth-century American postcards often combined seasonal motifs like cornucopias, plump birds and autumn produce with national symbols, reflecting a period when Thanksgiving was becoming a widely observed national holiday. Such cards were mailed to family and friends as inexpensive greetings, and their bright chromolithographed colors and layered emblems are typical of the era's commercial printing. Looking closely at how the shield sits among the fruit shows how designers blended domestic abundance with civic pride.
| Original scan | 1,024 × 683 px |
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| Reference | 1965726840_f0731672ff_b |
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