Victorian Thanksgiving Greetings Card with Girl and Turkey

Victorian Thanksgiving Greetings Card with Girl and Turkey

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OccasionThanksgiving
EraVictorian
Decade1890s
Stylechromolithograph
Colorslight blue, golden yellow, cream, green, deep burgundy
Vibesnostalgic, whimsical

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

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