
Victorian Thanksgiving Greetings Card with Girl and Turkey
Text on Card
THANKSGIVING GREETINGS
Description
Warmth and nostalgia radiate from this charming Victorian-era Thanksgiving greeting card, which features a young girl in white dress and bonnet guiding a large turkey harnessed to a wicker cart overflowing with harvest abundance. The cart brims with corn, berries, apples, and other autumn bounty, symbolizing the traditional gratitude of the holiday. The pastoral landscape and soft chromolithographic coloring create an idyllic scene celebrating the harvest season with whimsy and innocence characteristic of late 19th-century holiday ephemera.
Subjects
girl, turkey, harvest basket, corn, berries, apples, rural landscape, wicker cart
Printing Notes
Embossed details on dress trim and cart wheel; hand-tinted chromolithographic process with careful color separation







