
Vintage Thanksgiving Die-Cut Card with Turkey & Girl
Text on Card
Thanksgiving Joys
Description
A proud, ornately feathered turkey with its tail fanned in full display dominates the left side of this charming Victorian-era Thanksgiving greeting card from the 1880s-1890s. Rendered in warm browns and golds with meticulous lithographic detail, the bird commands attention beside a cherubic young girl dressed in traditional folk costume—a pink checkered dress with green bodice beneath a decorative lace or fabric cap/bonnet—who embodies the innocence and domestic virtue celebrated during this period. The decorative ornamental border frames the scene in burnished gold, and the printed text 'Thanksgiving Joys' adorns the composition, making this a quintessential example of late Victorian holiday sentiment and artistic sensibility.
Subjects
turkey, young girl, folk costume, harvest, poultry, children
Printing Notes
Die-cut format with decorative gilt border; hand-colored chromolithographic printing typical of premium Victorian cards







