Victorian Thanksgiving Greeting Card Turkey Wheat Harvest

What immediately strikes the modern viewer is the centerpiece of your Thanksgiving nightmares: a magnificently puffed turkey with a raw crimson head and fully fanned tail feathers, enthroned in a wreath of corn stalks and wheat like some kind of harvest deity who knows exactly what's coming for him. Apples and what appear to be onions or small gourds litter the base like sacrificial offerings, because apparently the best way to express 'warm holiday wishes' is by decorating your doomed bird with its own garnishes. The flanking pastoral vignettes—twee little farmhouses tucked into each side panel—only deepen the existential dread, as if to say: yes, there are farms, and yes, you know what happens on farms. 'Thanksgiving Greetings' is printed below in elegant script, which is honestly the most chilling part.